https://i126.fastpic.org/big/2026/0111/f6/90891c652e7b555053a9f226bdb959f6.jpg
Trans A Memoir | 371.53 KB
Title: Trans
Author: Juliet Jacques
Category: Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Gender Studies, Biography & Memoir
Language: English | 320 Pages | ISBN: 1784781673
Description:
Moving memoir and insightful examination of transgender politics
TRANS is the story of growing up, of finding an identity, and about the politics of gender. In July 2012, aged thirty, Juliet Jacques underwent sex reassignment surgery and felt for the first time that her body matched the person she felt she had been since childhood. Through university and then in a series of dead-end clerical jobs, Jacques felt out of place with her surroundings, and with who she really was.
Living in Brighton, trying to launch a career as a writer, she navigates the hostilities and misunderstandings of growing up in a time where the mainstream media--and even feminism--fail to acknowledge transgender identity. Yet through films, music, politics and football she begins to find herself, and starts the process of transition, and life beyond. Through her memoir, Jacques interweaves the narrative with powerful explorations of many of the major debates surrounding...
DOWNLOAD:
Книги
