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Title: Genderqueer: Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binary by Joan Nestle, Riki Wilchins, Clare Howell ISBN: 1-55583-730-1 Publisher: Alyson Pubns Pub. Date: August, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A wonderful anthology
Comment: In this amazing collection, various first-hand stories and essays from people in the nebulous area between male and female make the case of deconstructing gender. Including sections from Nestle and Wilchins, who have both already contributed much to the gender discussion already, the book lets those who live in between male and female have a voice. Ranging the length of queer gender from intersexuals to transexuals to femmes, "GenderQueer" doesn't leave any gender stone unturned, and expands the gay and lesbian rights debate to include gender issues, which the editors feel are at the core of the argument and of the harassment of queers and perceived queers in the United States. I found myself inspired by many of these personal tales, and I found myself reflected there as well. The final essay by Wilchins is especially moving and is the luscious cherry on the delicacies here.
Rating: 4
Summary: Remarkable Anthology
Comment: Saw it on the shelf at a local bookstore, started reading, and took it home. The individual pieces range from good, to stunning ("Packing a Rod" by Allen James and "The Gender Cops Work Overtime" by Gina Reiss are immediate standouts, both good enough to demand being read aloud). The authors address behavior, family relations, social relations, sex-reassignment surgery (whether or not to have it), the bi-gender system, and other topics.
"Genderqueer" is a "pull it off the shelf for guests" book - I don't know any other way of putting it. As a transgendered person, I have a number of books on the topic, including Riki Wilchins' excellent "Read My Lips." However this is the one that I find myself repeatedly grabbing for non-transgendered friends and family to highlight ideas and create awareness of the range of gender expression and identity issues. It is also a book that I have to work hard to keep it coming back to me - it has a tendency to go home with guests.
Be forewarned, though - this is not a book for the easily offended, be you straight, gay, queer, trans- or not. If you need your own feelings and ideas confirmed and validated, better to read something else. A number of the authors are brutal in their honesty, coarse in their language, and express disturbing opinions. For me, though, "Genderqueer" was enlightening, stimulating, often hilarious, and occasionally infuriating.
Rating: 4
Summary: an amazing anthology
Comment: Although a lot has been written about gender already, the editors--all acclaimed activists in their own right--go beyond the usual discussion of MTF and FTM. Instead, they talk about all kinds of people who fit outside gender norms, and argue that it is more complicated than we thought. If more people are included in this category, there is a better chance of fighting for acceptance. Gender equality is the latest battle in the quest for civil rights, and it's an interesting one.
But this is more than gender theory. The personal stories are all thought-provoking. I found myself thinking about them long after I stopped reading them. You will too.
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Title: Boys Like Her: Transfictions by Taste This (Performance Group), Ivan Coyote, Zoe Eakle, Lyndell Montgomery, Anna Camilleri, Taste This ISBN: 0889740860 Publisher: Press Gang Publishers Pub. Date: December, 1998 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender by Riki Wilchins ISBN: 1563410907 Publisher: Firebrand Books Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality by Anne Fausto-Sterling ISBN: 0465077145 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 22 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely by Kate Bornstein ISBN: 0415916739 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 18 December, 1997 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: Female Masculinity by Judith Halberstam ISBN: 0822322439 Publisher: Duke Univ Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.15 |
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