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What Becomes You (American Lives)

by Aaron Raz Link

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“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 womens experiences and mens 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.

About the Author

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 womens 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.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780803216426
Author:
Link, Aaron Raz
Publisher:
Bison Books
Author:
Raz, Hilda
Subject:
Gender Studies
Subject:
Gender identity
Subject:
United states
Subject:
Personal Memoirs
Subject:
Human Sexuality
Subject:
BIO026000
Subject:
Gender identity -- United States.
Subject:
Transsexualism -- United States.
Subject:
Biography - General
Edition Description:
Trade Paper
Series:
American Lives
Publication Date:
20080431
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
320
Dimensions:
9 x 6 in 0.95 lb

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