What Becomes You - Paperback

Name: What Becomes You - Paperback
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SKU: 9781496227843
Price: 21.95 USD
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by Aaron Raz Link , Hilda Raz

$21.95

Book Overview

"Being a man, like being a woman, is something you have to learn," Aaron Raz Link remarks. Few would know this better than the coauthor of What Becomes You, who began life as a girl named Sarah and twenty-nine years later began life anew as a gay man. Turning from female to male and from teaching scientist to theatre performer, Link documents the extraordinary medical, social, legal, and personal processes involved in a complete identity change.

Hilda Raz, a well-known feminist writer and teacher, observes the process as both an "astonished" parent and as a professor who has studied gender issues. All these perspectives come into play in this collaborative memoir, which travels between women's experience and men's lives, explores the art and science of changing sex, maps uncharted family values, and journeys through a world transformed by surgery, hormones, love, and . . . clown school. Combining personal experience and critical analysis, the book is an unusual--and unusually fascinating--reflection on gender, sex, and the art of living.

ISBN	9781496227843
Author	Aaron Raz Link , Hilda Raz
Publisher	University of Nebraska Press
Genre	Biography, Education, and Self-help & personal development
Format	Paperback
Published	April 2021
Language	ENG- English
Pages	324
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print

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About Hilda Raz

Hilda Raz is a former editor of Prairie Schooner and is the founding director of the Prairie Schooner Book Prizes. She was named the first Luschei Professor and Editor in the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Raz is editor of the Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series at the University of New Mexico Press and poetry editor for ABQ (in)Print and Bosque Press. She is the author or editor of fourteen books, including her most recent book, Letter from a Place I've Never Been: New and Collected Poems, 1986-2020, as well as All Odd and Splendid, Divine Honors, What Happens, and What Becomes You (with Aaron Raz Link), all available from the University of Nebraska Press.