Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us
Gender Outlaw is the work of a woman who has been through some changes--a former heterosexual male, a one-time Scientologist and IBM salesperson, now a lesbian woman writer and actress who makes regular rounds on the TV (so to speak) talk shows. In her book, Bornstein covers the "mechanics" of her surgery, everything you've always wanted to know about gender (but were too confused to ask) addresses the place and politics of the transgendered and intterogates the questions of those who give...
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Gender Outlaw is the work of a woman who has been through some changes—a former heterosexual male, a one-time Scientologist and IBM salesperson, now a lesbian woman writer and actress who makes regular rounds on the TV (so to speak) talk shows. In her book, Bornstein covers the "mechanics" of her surgery, everything you've always wanted to know about gender (but were too confused to ask) addresses the place and politics of the transgendered and intterogates the questions of those who give the subject little thought, creating questions of her own. Library Journal Bornstein considers herself a gender outlaw because she breaks the laws of nature. A former heterosexual male and now a lesbian woman, Bay Area Reporter writer, and actor who has appeared on talk shows, she has completed the transsexual process, including surgery. As she considers her workplace the theater, about a third of this autobiographical work is devoted to queer theater, including her play, Hidden: A Gender. The black-and-white photos were not seen but are apparently a significant part of this informative and humorous book.
1Transgender Style: Some Fashion Tips32The Hard Part73Interlude: Nuts And Bolts154Naming All The Parts215Interlude: The Lesbian Thing416Abandon Your Tedious Search! The Rulebook Has Been Found!457Which Outlaws? or, Who Was That Masked Man?558Gender Terror, Gender Rage719Send In The Clowns8710First You Die, And Then You Get Their Attention9311The First Question, or, They Have Those Funny, Staring Eyes10112The Other Questions11313Transsexual Lesbian Playwright Tells All!14314Queer Life/Queer Theater14715Hidden: A Gender16916The Seven Year Itch (what goes around, comes around)227Acknowledgments239Bibliography243
\ Library JournalBornstein considers herself a gender outlaw because she breaks the laws of nature. A former heterosexual male and now a lesbian woman, Bay Area Reporter writer, and actor who has appeared on talk shows, she has completed the transsexual process, including surgery. As she considers her workplace the theater, about a third of this autobiographical work is devoted to queer theater, including her play, Hidden: A Gender. The black-and-white photos were not seen but are apparently a significant part of this informative and humorous book.\ \
