What Becomes You - Brossura

Link, Aaron Raz; Raz, Hilda

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ISBN 10: 0803216424 ISBN 13: 9780803216426

Casa editrice: Bison Books, 2008

Riassunto

&;Being a man, like being a woman, is something you have to learn,&; Aaron Raz Link remarks. Few would know this better than the coauthor of What Becomes You, who began life as a girl named Sarah and twenty-nine years later began life anew as a gay man. As he transforms from female to male and from teaching scientist to theatre performer, Link documents the extraordinary medical, social, legal, and personal processes involved in a complete identity change.

 

Hilda Raz, a well-known feminist writer and teacher, observes this process both as an &;astonished&; parent and as a professor who has studied gender issues. All these perspectives come into play in this collaborative memoir, which travels between women&;s experiences and men&;s lives, explores the art and science of changing sex, maps uncharted family values, and journeys through a world transformed by surgery, hormones, love, and . . . clown school. Combining personal experience and critical analysis, the book is an unusual&;and unusually fascinating&;reflection on gender, sex, and the art of living. This Bison Books edition features a set of discussion questions.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Aaron Raz Link, a writer, performing artist, curator, and historian of science, is the director of the Museum of Nature in Portland, Oregon.

 

Hilda Raz, a professor of English and women&;s and gender studies at the University of Nebraska&;Lincoln, is the Glenna Luschei Endowed Editor of Prairie Schooner and author of the poetry collections What Is Good, The Bone Dish, Divine Honors, Trans, and All Odd and Splendid.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Bison Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0803216424
• ISBN 13: 9780803216426
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 299
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile