Becoming a Visible Man

Becoming a Visible Man
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Best Book in Transgender Studies, 2005
Winner, Center for Lesbian & Gay Studies (CLAGS), NY
2005 Lambda Literary Award Finalist

Written by a leading activist in the transgender movement, Becoming a Visible Man is an artful and compelling inquiry into the politics of gender. Jamison Green combines candid autobiography with informed analysis to offer unique insight into the multiple challenges of the female-to-male transsexual experience, ranging from encounters with prejudice and strained relationships with family to the development of an FTM community and the realities of surgical sex reassignment.

For more than a decade, Green has provided educational programs on gender-variance issues for corporations, law-enforcement agencies, social-science conferences and classes, continuing legal education, religious education, and medical venues. His comprehensive knowledge of the processes and problems encountered by transgendered and transsexual peopleâ€•as well as his legal advocacy work to help ensure that gender-variant people have access to the same rights and opportunities as othersâ€•enable him to explain the issues as no transsexual author has previously done.

Brimming with frank and often poignant recollections of Green's own experiencesâ€•including his childhood struggles with identity and his years as a lesbian parent prior to his sex-reassignment surgeryâ€•the book examines transsexualism as a human condition, and sex reassignment as one of the choices that some people feel compelled to make in order to manage their gender variance. Relating the FTM psyche and experience to the social and political forces at work in American society, Becoming a Visible Man also speaks consciously of universal principles that concern us all, particularly the need to live one's life honestly, openly, and passionately.
Country USA
Brand Vanderbilt University Press
Manufacturer Vanderbilt University Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber bibliography, index
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780826514578
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Vanderbilt University Press
Manufacturer	Vanderbilt University Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	bibliography, index
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780826514578
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Becoming a Visible Man

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