Becoming a Visible Man
Autor Jamison Greenen Limba Engleză Hardback – 4 iun 2004
Lambda Literary Award Finalist, 2004
Written by a leading activist in the transgender movement, Becoming a Visible Man is an artful and compelling inquiry into the politics of gender. Jamison Green combines candid autobiography with informed analysis to offer unique insight into the multiple challenges of the female-to-male transsexual experience, ranging from encounters with prejudice and strained relationships with family to the development of an FTM community and the realities of surgical sex reassignment.
For more than a decade, Green has provided educational programs on gender-variance issues for corporations, law-enforcement agencies, social-science conferences and classes, continuing legal education, religious education, and medical venues. His comprehensive knowledge of the processes and problems encountered by transgendered and transsexual people--as well as his legal advocacy work to help ensure that gender-variant people have access to the same rights and opportunities as others--enable him to explain the issues as no transsexual author has previously done.
Brimming with frank and often poignant recollections of Green's own experiences--including his childhood struggles with identity and his years as a lesbian parent prior to his sex-reassignment surgery--the book examines transsexualism as a human condition, and sex reassignment as one of the choices that some people feel compelled to make in order to manage their gender variance. Relating the FTM psyche and experience to the social and political forces at work in American society, Becoming a Visible Man also speaks consciously of universal principles that concern us all, particularly the need to live one's life honestly, openly, and passionately.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780826514561
ISBN-10: 0826514561
Pagini: 264
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Vanderbilt University Press
Colecția Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN-10: 0826514561
Pagini: 264
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Vanderbilt University Press
Colecția Vanderbilt University Press
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Notă biografică
Jamison Green is currently board chair of Gender Education and Advocacy, a non-profit educational corporation, and a board member of the Transgender Law and Policy Institute and the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association. He has also been featured in eight documentary films and numerous articles and books. He holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Oregon.
Recenzii
"When the premier trans-activist of a generation decides to write a memoir, we should be grateful. When Jamison Green weaves his personal and political experiences into a magnificent story it is all the more reason to celebrate. Becoming a Visible Man shows why he is a leading voice to a generation of transmen and transwomen and why this issue should be on the top of the agenda for all of us in the twenty-first century."
--Henry Rubin, author of Self-Made Men
"Jamison Green tells, with integrity, and in a moving and thoughtful way, his story."
--Dallas Denny, Editor, Transgender Tapestry Journal
"An intelligent and engaging book. Jamison Green, an extraordinary activist and advocate for FTM transsexuals, demonstrates that he is also an extraordinary writer. Green artfully blends the personal, the informative, and the political, and grounds it all in a generous vision of inclusive communities. He makes a thoughtful and persuasive case for making gender visible."
--Joanne Meyerowitz, author of How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States
"Jamison Green has given a great gift--based on experience born of a great personal journey, he demystifies gender in a way that transfixes the reader. The biological journey from zygote to adulthood unfolds to challenge the neat little boxes into which our culture drives gender each day. This is an essential contribution to the growing body of literature on gender identity and expression."
--Elizabeth Birch, former Executive Director, Human Rights Campaign
--Henry Rubin, author of Self-Made Men
"Jamison Green tells, with integrity, and in a moving and thoughtful way, his story."
--Dallas Denny, Editor, Transgender Tapestry Journal
"An intelligent and engaging book. Jamison Green, an extraordinary activist and advocate for FTM transsexuals, demonstrates that he is also an extraordinary writer. Green artfully blends the personal, the informative, and the political, and grounds it all in a generous vision of inclusive communities. He makes a thoughtful and persuasive case for making gender visible."
--Joanne Meyerowitz, author of How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States
"Jamison Green has given a great gift--based on experience born of a great personal journey, he demystifies gender in a way that transfixes the reader. The biological journey from zygote to adulthood unfolds to challenge the neat little boxes into which our culture drives gender each day. This is an essential contribution to the growing body of literature on gender identity and expression."
--Elizabeth Birch, former Executive Director, Human Rights Campaign
Extras
Preface to the Second Edition
At least two generations of transgender, nonbinary-identified, and other gender-nonconforming people have emerged since this book was first published. I see the YouTube videos, the Facebook groups, the conversations on Reddit (and many other forums), the growth of community-based organizations, and the new scholarship flourishing in all regions of the globe, and I love the energy and the commitment so many people are bringing to their self-explorations and efforts to improve the quality of life that trans people and their families experience. At the same time, though, I see that far too many people are asking the same questions that my own cohort of trans people asked thirty, forty, fifty years ago, and far too many people still believe that there is no information to be found about transgender lives. I know how tempting it is, in the US especially, to want to discard the past and forge new ground, but I am also heartened by the recent attention to our collective history from today's students and transgender-identified people who have been surprised and gratified to realize they have not been alone all this time, we have ancestors and pioneers, and there is a context for their lives.
I wrote this book to supply answers-or pathways toward them-to many of the questions that trans people and their loved ones were asking, and also to illuminate the lives of trans men. On the whole, trans men continue to be invisibilized and ignored while trans women are both glamorized and vilified-and murdered-all too frequently. I want trans women to receive the accolades they are due, and I want the demonizing and the killing to stop, but I also want trans men to be seen and respected, and nonbinary and agender people to be acknowledged and given credence. There is no gender justice in minimizing anyone; there are no valid excuses for ignoring gender inequality or perpetuating gender-based discrimination or violence. The scapegoating and oppression of trans and nonbinary people as a political diversion or as a tactic for enforcing gender "norms" only serve an irresponsible power structure and reinforce complacency with a cruel status quo that ultimately harms everyone. And now it seems the pathways once delineated are blurred, and the visibility of trans men is as problematic as ever. So this new edition explores these issues further.
In this version, I have maintained the structure of the original book, integrating updated information along the way. I have added new material to reflect political and cultural changes, concerns, and issues that have developed since the original text was published. I have also modified terminology to reflect evolving ideas and standards, with explication where applicable, and I use terms that are historical as well as contemporary. I use the term "trans" as an abbreviation for both "transgender" and "transsexual," and I do use "transsexual" when the term reflects the historical, medical, or legal context under discussion. I also intend the term "trans" to be inclusive of nonbinary-identified people who are also transgressing gender boundaries.
My concern has always been to amplify and lift up anyone who falls outside the simple binary defined by traditional gender roles, but also to assure every person that their own personal experience of gender, whether or not it conforms to a binary understanding, is valid and deserving of respect. I am convinced that the best way forward for all of us as human beings is to relinquish rigid identity constructs that are competitive with or invalidating of other people. We cannot understand ourselves or live authentic and virtuous lives without recognizing, accepting, and respecting each other's differences.
The human condition is so much more rich and dynamic than most of us have yet acknowledged, and the theorists of earlier centuries who based their observations of gender and sex on simple binary presumptions can be forgiven for their ignorance, but not for the harm their ideas are still causing, which is the very situation I hope this book can help to remedy. My original intention to improve society's understanding of transgender people and to increase self-acceptance and empowerment for trans people themselves has not changed, and neither has the need to combat misinformation, stereotypes, and fear. Don't be afraid to be yourself or to let others be themselves, just don't hurt yourself or anyone else in the process. Life is too valuable a gift to waste on anything less than kindness.
At least two generations of transgender, nonbinary-identified, and other gender-nonconforming people have emerged since this book was first published. I see the YouTube videos, the Facebook groups, the conversations on Reddit (and many other forums), the growth of community-based organizations, and the new scholarship flourishing in all regions of the globe, and I love the energy and the commitment so many people are bringing to their self-explorations and efforts to improve the quality of life that trans people and their families experience. At the same time, though, I see that far too many people are asking the same questions that my own cohort of trans people asked thirty, forty, fifty years ago, and far too many people still believe that there is no information to be found about transgender lives. I know how tempting it is, in the US especially, to want to discard the past and forge new ground, but I am also heartened by the recent attention to our collective history from today's students and transgender-identified people who have been surprised and gratified to realize they have not been alone all this time, we have ancestors and pioneers, and there is a context for their lives.
I wrote this book to supply answers-or pathways toward them-to many of the questions that trans people and their loved ones were asking, and also to illuminate the lives of trans men. On the whole, trans men continue to be invisibilized and ignored while trans women are both glamorized and vilified-and murdered-all too frequently. I want trans women to receive the accolades they are due, and I want the demonizing and the killing to stop, but I also want trans men to be seen and respected, and nonbinary and agender people to be acknowledged and given credence. There is no gender justice in minimizing anyone; there are no valid excuses for ignoring gender inequality or perpetuating gender-based discrimination or violence. The scapegoating and oppression of trans and nonbinary people as a political diversion or as a tactic for enforcing gender "norms" only serve an irresponsible power structure and reinforce complacency with a cruel status quo that ultimately harms everyone. And now it seems the pathways once delineated are blurred, and the visibility of trans men is as problematic as ever. So this new edition explores these issues further.
In this version, I have maintained the structure of the original book, integrating updated information along the way. I have added new material to reflect political and cultural changes, concerns, and issues that have developed since the original text was published. I have also modified terminology to reflect evolving ideas and standards, with explication where applicable, and I use terms that are historical as well as contemporary. I use the term "trans" as an abbreviation for both "transgender" and "transsexual," and I do use "transsexual" when the term reflects the historical, medical, or legal context under discussion. I also intend the term "trans" to be inclusive of nonbinary-identified people who are also transgressing gender boundaries.
My concern has always been to amplify and lift up anyone who falls outside the simple binary defined by traditional gender roles, but also to assure every person that their own personal experience of gender, whether or not it conforms to a binary understanding, is valid and deserving of respect. I am convinced that the best way forward for all of us as human beings is to relinquish rigid identity constructs that are competitive with or invalidating of other people. We cannot understand ourselves or live authentic and virtuous lives without recognizing, accepting, and respecting each other's differences.
The human condition is so much more rich and dynamic than most of us have yet acknowledged, and the theorists of earlier centuries who based their observations of gender and sex on simple binary presumptions can be forgiven for their ignorance, but not for the harm their ideas are still causing, which is the very situation I hope this book can help to remedy. My original intention to improve society's understanding of transgender people and to increase self-acceptance and empowerment for trans people themselves has not changed, and neither has the need to combat misinformation, stereotypes, and fear. Don't be afraid to be yourself or to let others be themselves, just don't hurt yourself or anyone else in the process. Life is too valuable a gift to waste on anything less than kindness.
Cuprins
Preface to the Second Edition
Foreword by Aaron H. Devor
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: How Do You Know?
• Coming Out
• Terminology
• Early Dialogues
• Interconnections
Chapter 2: Initiation
• Coming of Age
• The World of Men
• Letting Go of Shame
• Taking Responsible Action
Chapter 3: A Vision of Community
• Lou Sullivan and the FTM Group
• Unconventional Conventions
• Intolerance
• Stepping Up to the Plate
Chapter 4: Body of Knowledge
• Access to Treatment
• Hormone Therapy
• Approaching Surgery
• Top Surgery
• Bottom Surgery
• Decisions, Decisions
• Genital Geometry
Chapter 5: Transparent Feelings
• Denial
• Fear
• Parents and Trans Children
• Trans People as Parents
Chapter 6: Consummate Presence
• Desire versus Identity
• The “Threat” of Sexual Uncertainty
• Sex and Validation
• Knowing What’s Desired
Chapter 7: Visibility
• Visibility on Screen
• Visibility in Print
• The Visibility Dilemma
• Academic Debates
• Appearances
• Influencing the Course of Treatment
Chapter 8: Willful Destiny
• Physical Proof
• Self-Determination
• Validity
Afterword
Bibliography
Index
Foreword by Aaron H. Devor
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: How Do You Know?
• Coming Out
• Terminology
• Early Dialogues
• Interconnections
Chapter 2: Initiation
• Coming of Age
• The World of Men
• Letting Go of Shame
• Taking Responsible Action
Chapter 3: A Vision of Community
• Lou Sullivan and the FTM Group
• Unconventional Conventions
• Intolerance
• Stepping Up to the Plate
Chapter 4: Body of Knowledge
• Access to Treatment
• Hormone Therapy
• Approaching Surgery
• Top Surgery
• Bottom Surgery
• Decisions, Decisions
• Genital Geometry
Chapter 5: Transparent Feelings
• Denial
• Fear
• Parents and Trans Children
• Trans People as Parents
Chapter 6: Consummate Presence
• Desire versus Identity
• The “Threat” of Sexual Uncertainty
• Sex and Validation
• Knowing What’s Desired
Chapter 7: Visibility
• Visibility on Screen
• Visibility in Print
• The Visibility Dilemma
• Academic Debates
• Appearances
• Influencing the Course of Treatment
Chapter 8: Willful Destiny
• Physical Proof
• Self-Determination
• Validity
Afterword
Bibliography
Index
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An updated edition of a classic text from transgender rights pioneer Jamison Green
An updated edition of a classic text from transgender rights pioneer Jamison Green