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The Third Sex
1959
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Originating as a 1950's creative partnership between feminist/futurists Annselm L.N.V. Morpurgo and Billie Ann Taulman under the pen name 'Artemis Smith', the early collaborative effort in the arts became severely affected by Taulman's incapacitation and long and debilitating illness. Its culture-shattering militant agenda (and eventual bid for a Nobel) is contained in the Information Science Unisex Manifesto that "while System Architecture may vary, Soul Is Gender-Free" and was carried forward into the 21st Century by Morpurgo, publishing under the renewed label of 'ArtemisSmith'. ATTENTION ALL HETEROSEXUALS: Keep yourselves fully informed! This e-Book does not contain all the important biographical commentary and memorabilia illustrations included in the Author's 2013 new paperback Color Library Edition, available for only a few dollars more from Amazon (ISBN 978-1-878998-05-7). That edition includes all of the suppressed ArtemisSmith Sexology papers plus the ATHEIST MANIFESTO being sold separately in multiple Kindle editions. Students and Collectors should consider buying the paperback instead, especially since all autographed ArtemisSmith titles resell at a premium. Want the paperback autographed? Still-living author ArtemisSmith Morpurgo is available for virtual book signings through her own website, www.ArtemisSmith.net. This eBook version - containing only the 1960's novel and the 2011 Introduction - is recommended only for a quick read of the lesbian pulp fiction classic that became one of the best-selling manifestos of the pre-Stonewall Gay Rights movement. The original edition was a collaboration between Rainbow rights activists and life-partners Annselm Morpurgo (Artemis Smith) and Billie Taulman. Upon Taulman's collapse into a long-term debilitating illness, Annselm Morpurgo, a Warhol contemporary, continued to write novels, plays, poetry and scientific treatises under the pen name of Artemis Smith, and later, ArtemisSmith. This Author's eBook Re-Issue is part of the larger annotated paperback color edition of the classic lesbian pulp novel which, today, not only reads like a documentary of gay life in 1959 but also presents a contemporary picture of the people who may be living next door to you! .

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Artemis Smith
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see also under Annselm L.N.V. Morpurgo

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