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Becoming a Visible Man
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.768092
EAN: 9780826514578
ISBN: 082651457X
Label: Vanderbilt University Press
Manufacturer: Vanderbilt University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 264
Publication Date: June 04, 2004
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Studio: Vanderbilt University Press
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Editorial Review: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 peopleas well as his legal advocacy work to help ensure that gender-variant people have access to the same rights and opportunities as othersenable him to explain the issues as no transsexual author has previously done.Brimming with frank and often poignant recollections of Green's own experiencesincluding his childhood struggles with identity and his years as a lesbian parent prior to his sex-reassignment surgerythe 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 ones life honestly, openly, and passionately.Best Book in Transgender Studies, 2005
Winner, Center for Lesbian & Gay Studies (CLAGS), NY
2005 Lambda Literary Award Finalist
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Great book for anyone to read.
This is an easy, fun, and interesting read. The book rekindled my sensitivity and respect for humanity.
Rating: - Amazing!
It's a very good book, because it's one of the very best books I've ever read on trans issues. It's good if you need it for a positive outlook on transitioning. It's a book that has helped me as a person and I know that this book can help other guys out there see that they're not alone and there is a good way to transition.
Green, explores his own experiences and tells them in great detail. He's very educational and has helped me get through some tough times. It's a book I couldn't ... Read More
Rating: - A Personal Transformation
Personal experiences mixed with arguments about transgender issues provide the reader with insight about what it really means to be a transsexual.
Rating: - Becoming a Visible Man
Definately an excellent read, and one to keep in the library of any FTM.
Rating: - A most excellent read!
Jamison Green's book Becoming a Visible Man is easily among my current top choices of trans-related texts. Not only does Green give readers pieces of his own personal experiences (following the trend of many other trans texts), but he also offers accessible, educational, and nuanced arguments around trans issues. In this way, Becoming a Visible Man is not only the story of Green's own personal becoming, but also, and perhaps more importantly, the story of the structures, institutions, and other ... Read More
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