Kate Bornstein
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| Title | : | Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation |
| Author | : | Kate Bornstein |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 304 pages |
| Published | : | August 31st 2010 by Seal Press (first published August 24th 2010) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. GLBT. Queer. LGBT. Gender. Feminism. Transgender |
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In the 15 years since the release of Gender Outlaw, Kate Bornstein's groundbreaking challenge to gender ideology, transgender narratives have made their way from the margins to the mainstream and back again. Today's transgenders and other sex/gender radicals are writing a drastically new world into being. In Gender Outlaws, Bornstein, together with writer, raconteur, and theater artist S. Bear Bergman, collects and contextualizes the work of this generation's trans and genderqueer forward thinkers — new voices from the stage, on the streets, in the workplace, in the bedroom, and on the pages and websites of the world's most respected mainstream news sources. Gender Outlaws includes essays, commentary, comic art, and conversations from a diverse group of trans-spectrum people who live and believe in barrier-breaking lives.Details Books As Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation
| ISBN: | 1580053084 (ISBN13: 9781580053082) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction (Nominee), LGBT Anthology (2011), Publishing Triangle Judges’ Special Award in Nonfiction (2010) |
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Ratings: 4.07 From 2446 Users | 150 ReviewsCriticism Regarding Books Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation
This book is a kind of sequel to Kate Bornstein's Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us, published in 1994. Gender Outlaw, which has become a staple in Queer Studies classrooms, questions the fundamental necessity of dividing the human race into only two genders assumed to be "natural" and mutually exclusive. Gender oppression, in Bornstein's view, is not only a form of inequality imposed on the value-neutral categories of "male" and "female," but is intrinsic to them. As a charismaticBrilliant reflections, which are of course mixed in with some pretty-good essays. Gender Outlaws is a hipper, queerer take on the heartfelt "gender is a spectrum" essays we've read in the New York Times... not just a discussion of gender complexity, but a joyful and thoughtful and angry and loving celebration of why gender diversity is so damn cool. It's easy to read in ten minute chunks, which is about the attention span I have available lately. Go ahead and skip the introduction and interludes
Such an important collection of narratives that disrupts the binary at every turn!
The sheer diversity of life stories is amazing to me. On top of it, the book is a collection of many different genres, which makes it even more interesting. This is really going push to the reader to expand their horizons.
Mind-bending--sometimes causing heartache because of the book's depiction of joy or violence, and sometimes because of its searing poetry. This should not be the first book you read about transgender and non-binary experiences. You should have explored other authors' biographies or sociological descriptions, more factual and more attuned to the common consensus, before taking a wild trip with this book. Imagine, for instance, a person identified as female at birth who comes out later as
I love anthologies because they're kind of like internet content - wide sample, varied voice and perspective, if you like something you can dig up more by the author, if you don't like something that's okay because it only lasts a few more pages. Kate Bornstein is obviously a saint whomst we stan, but I am growing to understand that her co-editor, S Bear Bergman is not someone with whose work I vibe endlessly. I have not yet read Gender Outlaw (Bornstein) which I imagine would frame this book a
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