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Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us (Hardcover)

by Kate Bornstein (Author) "I see fashion as a proclamation or manifestation of identity, so, as long as identities are important, fashion will continue to be important ..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (12 May 1994)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0415908973
  • ISBN-13: 978-0415908979
  • Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.2 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 905,051 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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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


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Gender has been described as the battleground for the 90s. As we watch the emergence of 'gender-bending' in popular culture, the lines are being drawn and sides taken up. Somewhere above both sides stands Kate Bornstein, with a unique, funny and lucid voice. Gender Outlaw is the work of a woman who has been through some changes - a former heterosexual male and one-time Scientologist and IBM salesperson, now a lesbian writer and actress who makes regular rounds on the TV 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); the place and politics of the transgendered; and the questions of those who give the subject little thought. Kate Bornstein takes on various communities: gay, lesbian, straight, S/M and transgender, along with the 'society at large'. In her witty incisive observations is the foundation of a radical new politics of sexuality and gender. The book also includes Bornstein's play, Hidden: A Gender . Gender Outlaw is an ideal response to the belief that everyone talks about gender, but no one does anything about it. Kate Bornstein has taken (dramatic) steps, and invites the reader along for the trip.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Blurring The Lines, 21 Sep 2000
By mooc1_98@worc.ac.uk (Worcster, Great Britain) - See all my reviews
'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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars 'Normal' folks, read this book!, 10 Nov 1997
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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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars EVERYONE should read this book!, 13 Mar 2002
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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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5.0 out of 5 stars Challange Your Assumptions

If you want to challenge your assumptions about the role of gender in society, read "Gender Outlaw," or any book by Kate Bornstein. Read more

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3.0 out of 5 stars The Freaks come out at night 101
Take boring feminist theory, victim ideology and throw in a trans-"gender" and you have "Gender Outlaw". Read more
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