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Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods-My Mother's, My Father's, and Mine

by Noelle Howey

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Throughout her childhood in suburban Ohio, Noelle struggled to gain love and affection from her distant father. In compensating for her fathers brusqueness, Noelle idolized her nurturing tomboy mother and her conservative grandma who tried to turn her into “a little lady.” At age fourteen, Noelles mom told her the family secret: “Dad likes to wear womens clothes.” As Noelle copes with a turbulent adolescence, her father begins to metamorphose into the loving parent she had always longed for—only now outfitted in pedal pushers and pink lipstick.

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As Howey copes with a turbulent adolescence, her father begins to metamorphose into the loving parent she had always longed for--only now outfitted in pedal pushers and pink lipstick. of illustrations.
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About the Author

Noelle Howey lives with her husband and daughter in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780312422202
Author:
Howey, Noelle
Publisher:
Picador USA
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Personal Memoirs
Subject:
United states
Subject:
Family Relationships
Subject:
Parenting - General
Subject:
Children of transsexual parents -
Subject:
Transsexual parents - Family relationships -
Subject:
Biography - General
Copyright:
2002
Edition Description:
First
Publication Date:
20030531
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Includes two pages of black-and-white il
Pages:
352
Dimensions:
8.5 x 5.5 x 0.785 in
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