Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us
Kate Bornstein, "Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us"
English | ISBN: 1101973242 | 2016 | 320 pages | AZW3 | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 1101973242 | 2016 | 320 pages | AZW3 | 3 MB
“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.
With a new introduction by the author
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.
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