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write me back, Kate!,
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This review is from: Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us (Paperback)
If you consider keeping your identity a secret and keeping mum in order to perpetuate the status quo as being "accepted by society," then I suppose outspoken transsexuals like Bornstein have done a lot of damage. However, she does go to great lengths to address in her book the fact that some other transsexuals will undoubtedly disagree with her. I may disagree with separatist lesbians, but I would never deny them the right to speak out about their beliefs because "they make feminism look bad." Now, Kate Bornstein is no "man-hater," after all, she used to be a man! But is she a woman now? Well, not exactly. while I may disagree with her occasionally cheesy use of the word "shaman" to describe exactly what she is, I know what she's getting at, because the beauty of this book is that most of us, transgendered or not, have been there, too. The point is not that "she was a he who got his thing cut off." The point is that gender roles in our culture are way too stratified, too rigid. We need to play with them, to find out what would happen if, god(dess) forbid, we spent some time as neither, even if just while reading a book. As unradical and simple as that may sound, it is the point of Bornstein's book. it would be a start toward dismantling what she so astutely refers to as the cult of gender. She does include her e-mail address in her book, and I am eagerly awaiting a response from her to a message I sent. I also recommend My Gender Workbook, which is illustrated by Diane DiMassa (who I met when she spoke at RISD!)
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By Eric Fleming (Michigan, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us (Paperback)
Just after I started my own transition I read this book, and it was possibly the most influential read of my transition. It was truly strengthening and exhilerating, and I found my voice through reading this book. A fantastic read for anyone--not just transgender folks--but especially for those proceeding into transition.
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Unrelated with the transsexual experience,
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This review is from: Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us (Paperback)
Since I started reading the book of Mrs Bornstein, I had mixed feelings. For sure, her description of the way men and women are imprisonned into socially stereotyped roles is interesting, relevant and very useful. For sure, any effort to help people freeing themselves from these stereotypes is important.On the other hand, I cannot agree on the way she uses transsexual persons to make her point. First of all the life experience of transsexual persons are extremely diverse and the one of Mrs Bornstein is far to correspond to the one of most persons. Many transsexual persons identify themselves as being clearly women (or men) born with a birth defect, entrapped in the wrong body, which is an unbearably painful condition. For them having their bodies repaired is not only an emergency but literally a matter of life and death. This does not mean that those persons will necessarily agree with the gender stereotypes and will fit into rigidly defined roles. But this question is completely distinct from the one of the sexual identity of transsexual persons. Of course, some other persons have a self identification which is more complex. But the experience of transsexual persons is too diverse to be put under a single hat. It is also clear that facing a world with rigid gender stereotypes is an extremely serious problem for transsexual persons, but it is also problematic for a lot of other people. On the other hand, the key question transsexual persons are facing, is that their sexual identity is in deep disagreement with their body up to the point of making their lives unbearable. This question is completely unrelated with the gender system we are facing.
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