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Lingua: inglese
Editore: Sibylline Press, 2023
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Until she finally got sober, Maeve?s life was mired in depression and unconscious struggle.She felt unconnected and full of self-loathing. Not herself. It took a lifetime in and out of AA and rehab and a trail of failed relationships and escalating trouble, before she began to understand the source of her lifelong despair and took the bold step to become the woman she is now.In this intimate and unflinchingly honest memoir, Maeve tells the story of being herself in all aspects of her life, including work, the last threshold. She faced the special challenge of working as a manager of public relations for Goldman Sachs and therefore was a public face of the company. She knew she couldn?t transition quietly.Initially she keeps her identity a secret with wardrobe changes in the lobby bathroom after work. When she finally declares herself, Goldman Sachs ? to her surprise ? embraces her. A New York Times story follows, leading Maeve to a new life as a role model for other transgender people and giving her a sense of purpose that had been lacking her entire life.…
Codice articolo CIN1736795414VG
- Titolo
- Maeve Rising: Coming Out Trans in Corporate America
- Autore
- Maeve Duvally
- Editore
- Sibylline Press
- Anno di pubblicazione
- 2023
- Condizione
- Very Good
- Rilegatura
- Paperback
- Lingua
- inglese
- ISBN 10
- 1736795414
- ISBN 13
- 9781736795415
In this searingly honest LGBTQ+ memoir, Maeve DuVally tells the story ofcoming out transgender in one of the most high-profile financial institutionsin America, Goldman Sachs.
When MaeveDuVally came out as a transgender woman while working as a corporatecommunications manager at one of the most renowned financial institutions inAmerica, she knew she couldn’t do it quietly. She was, after all, the face ofGoldman Sachs.
DuVallyintimately documents her struggle to be herself in this environment, initiallykeeping her identity a secret with wardrobe changes in the lobby bathroom afterwork. Eventually she declares herself and, to her surprise, Goldman Sachsembraces the effort. Surgery follows.
When DuVallyfinally takes those first steps on heels through the corridors of thisinstitution on the way to her first meeting with her team as a woman, thereader cheers. A New York Times story helped DuVally realize she could become arole model for other transgender people in corporations and branded Goldman Sachsas a model for corporations assisting their transitioning employees.
Before shefound her courage, DuVally’s life was mired in depression and unconsciousstruggle. Raised in an Irish Catholic family with a sadistic pathologistfather, her upbringing dropped her?already damaged and feeling separate?into anadulthood plagued by alcoholism.
After a decadein Japan, she returns to the US and prospers as a journalist and bankcommunications specialist. Yet throughout, her personal life is in shambles,leaving two marriages and three children in her wake. At Goldman Sachs in NewYork, she ascends to a top communications position before her drinking beginsto encroach upon her work.
Finally,DuVally hits bottom, becoming sober after a lifetime in and out of AA andrehab. Clear at last, she begins to understand the source of her lifelongstruggle and takes the bold step to become the woman she is now.
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