gender outlaw on men women and the rest of us

On one level,ĭetails Bornstein's transformation from heterosexual male to lesbian woman, from a one-time IBM salesperson to a playwright and performance artist. 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 across the terrains of gender and identity. and I've come to the conclusion that I'm probably not a woman, either. American author Kate Bornstein, who was born male and later in life socially and medically transitioned to female, wrote in her book Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us: Gender fluidity is the ability to freely and knowingly become one or many of a limitless number of genders, for any length of time, at any rate of change.

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.'I know I'm not a man. Gender Outlaw was decades ahead of its time when it was first published in 1994. 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. 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. With these words, Kate Bornstein ushers readers on a funny, fearless, and wonderfully scenic journey across the terrains of gender and identity. The trouble is, we’re living in a world that insists we be one or the other. I know I’m not a man … and I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m probably not a woman, either….

Gender outlaw on men women and the rest of us