Gender Outlaw On Men Women & the Rest of Us

Part coming-of-age story, part mind-altering manifesto on gender and sexuality, coming directly to you from the life experiences of a transsexual woman, Gender Outlaw breaks all the rules and leaves the reader forever changed.26 black-and-white illustrations.

I know I m not a man . . . and I ve come to the conclusion that I m probably not a woman, either. . . . . The trouble is, we re living in a world that insists we be one or the other. With these words, Kate Bornstein ushers readers on a funny, fearless, and wonderfully scenic journey across the terrains of gender and identity. On one level, Gender Outlawdetails Bornstein s transformation from heterosexual male to lesbian woman, from a one-time IBM salesperson to a playwright and performance artist. But this particular coming-of-age story is also a provocative investigation into our notions of male and female, from a self-described nonbinary transfeminine diesel femme dyke who never stops questioning our cultural assumptions.
Gender Outlawwas decades ahead of its time when it was first published in 1994. Now, some twenty-odd years later, this book stands as both a classic and a still-revolutionary work one that continues to push us gently but profoundly to the furthest borders of the gender frontier."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-253).