Bornstein - Gender Outlaw On Men, Women and the Rest of Us
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While Bornstein covers an incredible rangefrom the nuts and bolts of her surgery to more abstract musings on a brave new gender-free worldthe book never stops fascinating. [She offers us] an abundance of questionsthoughtful, disarming, revelatory questions. Gender Outlaw is an invitation to a dialogue, and its a conversation well worth having.
Ms.
Kate Bornstein argues eloquently and passionately for scrapping the categories of women and men. Agree. Disagree. Read it!
Leslie Feinberg, author of Stone Butch Blues
The first book of gender theory written by a transgendered personincludes countless insights, trenchant cultural analysis, and generous wit.[It] will surely become a classic.
Washington Blade
[Bornstein is on the] leading edge of contemporary debate about sexual identity and gender. [She] asks fundamental and challenging questions about what it means to be a man or woman in our society.
San Francisco Chronicle
Kate is an orgasm on two legs. Reading this book gives me a heart orgasm, and it could give you one too! Gender Outlaw is a great work of love.
Annie Sprinkle, performance artist
Kate Bornstein is a fierce and funny voice on the front lines of gender and sexual identity. Her wise heart and wild imagination challenge us to really own our bodies, our desires, our dreams.
Tim Miller, performance artist
Kate Bornstein divides their time between New York City and the Rhode Island shore. She can be seen in all episodes of season two of the reality TV show I Am Cait. Their stage work includes the solo performance pieces The Opposite Sex Is Neither, Virtually Yours, and On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us. When not writing or performing, Kate can be found cuddling with Maui, following Doctor Who, prowling Twitter and Instagram, or playing pinball in their hometown of Asbury Park, New Jersey.
SECOND VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION , NOVEMBER 2016
Revised edition and introduction copyright 2016 by Kate Bornstein
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Routledge, New York, and simultaneously in Great Britain by Routledge, London, in 1994. Copyright 1994 by Routledge. Subsequently published in paperback, with a new afterword, by Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 1995.
Vintage and colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.
The author gratefully acknowledges the permission of Issues Monthly (February 1991) to reprint Nuts and Bolts and The Lesbian Thing in this volume.
Photo credits: : Janet Van Ham.
The Cataloging-in-Publication data is on file at the Library of Congress.
Vintage Books Trade Paperback ISBN9781101973240
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Cover design by Perry De La Vega
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This book is dedicated to my friend and teacher, John Emigh, who taught me about laughter and acting, who showed me it was okay to break some rules and to follow some others, who responded to my gender change with both respect and a good sense of humor, and who encouraged me to continue working in theater when I was sure Id have to give it up. Bless you and thank you, Johnyouve always asked me challenging questions.
In Loving Memory of:
Doris Fish
Tippi
Lou Sullivan
Tedde Matthews
John Payne
Leland Moss
Ethyl Eichelberger
Charles Ludlam
Kelly
Christine Jorgensen
and
Billy Tipton
When you translate the playful title Gender Outlaw into Mandarin, it comes out as the not-so-playful Sex Criminal. So my Chinese publisher, New Star Press, asked me for some other titles. I rummaged through my mind for familiar gender metaphors and hopped onto Skype with my translator, Liao Aiwan, who uses the pronouns they, them, and theirs.
How about Gender Is a Butterfly? I suggested.
No, no, they said. This book of yours is a radical call to gender activism. To a Chinese reader, butterfly makes it seem like a fluffy childrens book. But the butterfly metaphor is certainly in the right ballpark.
I suggested Gender Is a Cocoon, and they explained to me that to a Chinese mind, the image of a cocoon conjures the panic that comes with claustrophobia. We both stared at each other blankly. Then their face lit up.
Gender Is a Caterpillar! Its perfect!
Ah, was all I could think to say.
Liao Aiwan explained that, to a Chinese reader, the caterpillar stage conjures the notion of great possibilities. Thats what youre trying to say about gender, isnt it? Possibilities?
I nodded; yep, thats what I was going for with the book. They continued excitedly, saying that we should use the childs term wooly worm because that gets us back to playful. And so, if you want to buy this book in China, look for the title Gender Is a Wooly Worm.
Just like you wanted gender outlaw to be playful. Right, Kate?
Just so. And between the two of us, we found a common language of gender.
Sowhats your language of gender?
With whom do you talk about gender?
Are there people who speak a language of gender that doesnt quite make sense to you?
The language of gender that I learned growing up in the fifties was all in service to the difference between men and women. White men and white women, to be specific. And the earliest differences were biology. In the early 1980s, I knew for a fact that I could never be a woman so long as I had a penis. So I transitioned from male to female by means of gender confirmation surgeryit was the only way I could possibly live as the woman I believed myself to be. In Denmark some fifty years earlier, Lili Elbe knew for a fact that she could never be a woman so long as she had no uterus. Miss Elbe died from complications resulting from
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