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

ISBN: 1101973242

Author: Bornstein, Kate

Condition: Used

I know Im not a man ... and Ive come to the conclusion that Im probably not a woman, either.... The trouble is, were 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.With a new introduction by the authorOn one level, Gender Outlaw details Bornsteins 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 Outlaw was 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.