Kate Bornstein: Gender Outlaw
Gender Outlaw
Buch
- On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 11/2016
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781101973240
- Bestellnummer: 9482837
- Umfang: 320 Seiten
- Gewicht: 299 g
- Maße: 203 x 128 mm
- Stärke: 20 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 15.11.2016
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
"I know I'm not a man . . . and I've come to the conclusion that I'm probably not a woman, either. . . . . The trouble is, we're living in a world that insists we be one or the other." With these words, Kate Bornstein ushers readers on a funny, fearless, and wonderfully scenic journey across the terrains of gender and identity. On one level, Gender Outlaw details Bornstein's transformation from heterosexual male to lesbian woman, from a one-time IBM salesperson to a playwright and performance artist. But this particular coming-of-age story is also a provocative investigation into our notions of male and female, from a self-described nonbinary transfeminine diesel femme dyke who never stops questioning our cultural assumptions.Gender Outlaw was decades ahead of its time when it was first published in 1994. Now, some twenty-odd years later, this book stands as both a classic and a still-revolutionary work-one that continues to push us gently but profoundly to the furthest borders of the gender frontier.
With a new introduction
Biografie
Kate Bornstein ist eine in der Szene bekannte Transgender-Aktivistin, die bereits mehrere erfolgreiche Bücher veröffentlicht hat. Sie lebt mit ihrer Partnerin in New York. Kate Bornstein
Gender Outlaw
EUR 18,45*