Gender Outlaw, Kate Bornstein
Gender Outlaw, Kate Bornstein
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Gender Outlaw
On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us

Author: Kate Bornstein

Narrator: Kate Bornstein

Unabridged: 8 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/07/2018


Synopsis

"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 listeners on a funny, fearless, and wonderfully scenic journey across the terrains of gender and identity. On one level, Gender Outlaw details Bornstein's transformation from heterosexual male to lesbian woman, from a one-time IBM salesperson to a playwright and performance artist. But this particular coming-of-age story is also a provocative investigation into our notions of male and female, from a self-described nonbinary transfeminine diesel femme dyke who never stops questioning our cultural assumptions.

Gender Outlaw was decades ahead of its time when it was first published in 1994. Now, some twenty-odd years later, this book stands as both a classic and a still-revolutionary work—one that continues to push us gently but profoundly to the furthest borders of the gender frontier.

About Kate Bornstein

Kate Bornstein divides their time between New York City and the Rhode Island shore. She can be seen in all episodes of Season 2 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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Cameron on November 03, 2017

Thoughts that are not really a review: This book was written in 2010, which was before I was out as trans. When it comes to trans things, seven years simultaneously seems very recent and a long time ago. I find that when I look at trans history, lots of things seems the same (discrimination, struggl......more

Goodreads review by Jean on March 10, 2011

This book is a kind of sequel to Kate Bornstein's Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us, published in 1994. Gender Outlaw, which has become a staple in Queer Studies classrooms, questions the fundamental necessity of dividing the human race into only two genders assumed to be "natural" and......more

Goodreads review by Tamara-Jo on June 14, 2023

Very cool! My favorite essays were: “The Old Folks at Home” “I am Transreal: a reflection on/of Becoming a Dragon” “Daddy Gets the Big Piece of Chicken” “The secret life of my wiener” “The Manly Art of Pregnancy” “Why You Don’t Have To Choose A White Boy Name To Be A Man In This World” “The Voice” “Pil......more

Goodreads review by Trisha on December 06, 2010

Gender Outlaws is a series of poems, essays, comic strips, etc. which offers insight into a variety of trans* issues. o many different perspectives are presented in this text; however, intersectionality drove many essays in the book. Focusing on the vast space between in the gender binary, these ess......more

Goodreads review by Melissa on July 16, 2018

Actual rating 4.75 This. Was. GREAT. This was a brilliant and fantastic collection of poems, comics, short stories, and q&a's covering the world of trans and queer individuals. The rawness of so many of these stories helped me to better empathize with the struggle of the trans/genderqueer communitie......more