Kate Bornstein: 5 books
My Gender Workbook, Updated
A Step-by-Step Guide to Achieving World Peace Through Gender Anarchy and Sex Positivity
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
"This updated edition of Bornstein's formative My Gender Workbook (1997) provides an invigorating introduction to contemporary theory around gender, sexuality, and power. The original is a classic of modern transgender theory and literature and, alongside Bornstein's other work, has influenced...
Hello Cruel World
101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Celebrated transsexual trailblazer Kate Bornstein has, with more humor and spunk than any other, ushered us into a world of limitless possibility through a daring re-envisionment of the gender system as we know it.
Here, Bornstein bravely and wittily shares personal and unorthodox methods of survival...
A Queer and Pleasant Danger
The true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church of Scientology, and leaves twelve years later to become the lovely lady she is today
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
A stunningly original memoir of a nice Jewish boy who joined the Church of Scientology and left twelve years later, ultimately transitioning to a woman. A few years later, she stopped calling herself a woman and became famous as a gender outlaw.
Kate Bornstein—gender theorist, performance...
Gender Outlaws
The Next Generation
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
In the 15 years since the release of Gender Outlaw, Kate Bornstein’s groundbreaking challenge to gender ideology, transgender narratives have made their way from the margins to the mainstream and back again. Today's transgenders and other sex/gender radicals are writing a drastically new world into...
Gender Outlaw
On Men, Women and the Rest of Us
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
“I know I’m not a man . . . and I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m probably not a woman, either. . . . . The trouble is, we’re living in a world that insists we be one or the other.” With these words, Kate Bornstein ushers readers on a funny, fearless, and wonderfully scenic journey...