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GenderQueer: Voices From Beyond the Sexual Binary |
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| Author: Published: 2002-08-01 |
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List price: $16.95 Our price: $11.53 |
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Customer comments on this selection. AMAZINGthis was one of the greatest books i have ever read. It was soo touching. With ever story i felt so at home reading it. I cried during one of the story's it really touched me i felt like someone was stalking my emotions and writing them down. Some stories where so funny and good. I couldn't stop reading it was addictive. My teacher borrowed it from me. although i have people in my class saying i was a freak for reading this book. it didn't matter to me(it bothered me a little for a day but i got over it) i felt comfortable reading my genderqueer book for everyone to see. A MUST READ!! Gender TrippingFascinating critters, slugs. "True" hermaphrodites, each possess female and male reproductive organs. Although slugs can, and will, fertilize themselves, they prefer mating. Both mates lay eggs. Often in the process, "apophallation" occurs - that is, in order to disengage their sperm-producing organs, both slugs must undergo "castration." Starting out hermaphroditic, slugs default "female." Since slugs mate only once, it's a tidy arrangement. Baby slugs hatch independently and fend for themselves. Communists. My daughter and I raised a clutch of eggs once. 55 of the little rice-sized goobers turned into slithering 6-inch mollusks. Big appetite for cucumbers and mushrooms. We took 'em to her kindergarten show 'n tell, put them all out on a big, wet plate, their eyeball stalks a-quivering. "EEEwwww!" groaned the gals. All the boys wigged, eyes-popping, challenged, upstaged. My little girl, ostensibly sugar and spice, was the class rebel hero. Now she's raising 9 rats. The neighborhood kids are impressed. With a high-testosterone mom and a superfem dad, her parents, a gender-variant unity of opposites, often joke that we live the Munsters' life, two outcasts who produced, magically, a beautiful and socially normative Marilyn. Time (and puberty) will tell, however. I like to think normative will be an option by then; goth, hippie, punk, queer - imagine there's no genders, it's easy if you try. Gender was bewildering to me "when I was a boy" - I thought I was in with the hopscotch girls 'til someone's older sister poured a cream soda on my head and told me to go - but soon I discovered Keith Richards' outfit on the cover of Satanic Majesties Request. It's no coincidence 1967 was the year of paisley, beads, long hair and flower power; what defied the draft better than fem? And, all these years later - consider the New York Dolls' reunion - rock and trans continue to crossfertilize, positively. "Are you a man or a woman?" "I'm Mick Jagger!" Back to the garden. After reading the dense, academic, postmodern Transgender Studies Reader (Stryker, Whittle), GenderQueer was a shock of pure pleasure! Interesting ideologies, told personably, credibly, even forcefully through street-smart prose. Most essays are very short, and assume the readership has been around the block. Mercifully free of superstar surgery stories, GenderQueer troubles all TG hierarchies and identity politics. Men-horny lesbians and T-girls refusing to pass, and plenty inexplicable more: "It's a whole different generation" ["Disorderly Fashion"]. Smash. A combination of fairytales ("Loving Outside Simple Lines"), tearjerkers ("Passing Realities," "Preadolescent Drag King"), horrorstories ("The A Train"), ravers ("World's Youngest"), mindbenders ("Wanting Men"), clarion calls ("Do It On The Dotted Line," "Transie," "Do I Dare?") and supertight essays by editor Riki Wilchins, GenderQueer is, to date, the latest word in the expanding, increasing visible TG universe. Absolutely essential vitamins - and psychedelic, too. fantasticthis book holds a great collection of people living outside the gender binary. few fall into the trap of political soapboxing and instead tell honest, beautiful stories. i'd recomend this over "from the inside out" by morty diamond if your looking for a well written and engaging book of writing by gender queers.  mindblowing!!!!!!!this was an excellent book that completely blew my mind about what i previously thought i knew about gender, even about transgendered persons. it peaked and held my thirst for understanding, and though it is not all encompassing....it opens the door wide and then pushes you into the deep end frocing you to swim through all the preconceived ideas that we have always been taught about gender and sex roles and identities...every author should be commended for sharing their deeply personal and often touching stories...i highly recommend this book to any and everyone A wonderful anthologyIn 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. |
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