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""Gender Outlaw is an eye-opening book, combining the emotional force of a coming-of-age story with a savvy cultural critique.."
-"Out
"[Kate Borstein] offers us an abundance of questions--thoughtful, disarming, revelatory questions. "Gender Outlaw is an invitation to dialogue, and it's a conversation well worth having.."
-"Ms.
"Gender Outlaw is a radical document. . .."
-"The Nation
"a pastiche of oddments--dreams and memories, influences and quotations, fresh ideas and numerous received wisdoms. . .."
-Richard McCann, author of Ghost Letters
"In an age of often hostilely expressed gender politics, Ms. Bornstein gently leads audiences through her own psychic labyrinth without antagonism. She is sweet, sincere, lucid and sometimes as corny as Kansas in August. She really should have her own television show."
-"New York Times
-"Out
"[Kate Borstein] offers us an abundance of questions--thoughtful, disarming, revelatory questions. "Gender Outlaw is an invitation to dialogue, and it's a conversation well worth having.."
-"Ms.
"Gender Outlaw is a radical document. . .."
-"The Nation
"a pastiche of oddments--dreams and memories, influences and quotations, fresh ideas and numerous received wisdoms. . .."
-Richard McCann, author of Ghost Letters
"In an age of often hostilely expressed gender politics, Ms. Bornstein gently leads audiences through her own psychic labyrinth without antagonism. She is sweet, sincere, lucid and sometimes as corny as Kansas in August. She really should have her own television show."
-"New York Times
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Gender Outlaw is the work of a woman who has been through some changes--a former heterosexual male, a one-time Scientologist and IBM salesperson, now a lesbian woman writer and actress who makes regular rounds on the TV (so to speak) talk shows. In her book, Bornstein covers the "mechanics" of her surgery, everything you've always wanted to know about gender (but were too confused to ask) addresses the place and politics of the transgendered and intterogates the questions of those who give the subject little thought, creating questions of her own.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Blurring The Lines,
By mooc1_98@worc.ac.uk (Worcster, Great Britain) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us (Hardcover)
'Gender Outlaw' by Kate Bornstein has rapidly found itself becoming established as one of the books to read amongst the transgendered community and delving into the book it is easy to see why. Kate is not afraid to stand back and take a look at the concept of gender taking it apart piece by piece and posing some questions about gender that had probably never been thought off. Combine this questioning stance with pictures and extracts from her life and the book makes compelling reading. Ultimately the book is fascinating especially if you are interested in gender concepts or questioning your own although it should perhaps be noted that at times it can be a very difficult read.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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'Normal' folks, read this book!,
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This review is from: Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us (Hardcover)
It's a while since I read Kate Bornstein's *Gender Outlaw*, but my overall impression is that it is a pathbreaking book which drags (!) transsexuality out of the ghetto and into the homes of 'ordinary' people.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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EVERYONE should read this book!,
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This review is from: Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us (Hardcover)
Kate Bornstein takes the whole concept of gender and rips it to pieces fantastically well. Personally I wasn't overly interested in the oft repeated (throughout the TG community) shamanic references and history of 'gender blur' as she calls it but the rest of the book makes fascinating reading. Her play "Hidden: A gender" is included in the book and makes stunning reading...to describe it as hard hitting doesn't even come close! All in all this book should make interesting reading for everyone but really should be a required text for any transexual struggling to clamber out of the closet (haven't we all been there?). You'll feel 10 foot tall after reading this one!
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