Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us

Kate Bornstein

Routledge Chapman & Hall, 1994 - Social Science - 245 pages

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.

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Review: Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us

User Review  - Wallis - Goodreads

Nothing is this book will be very enlightening to those already familiar with Gender Theory--and practice. Still and all, the author does provide a good primer for novices, most of whom I hope may be ...

Review: Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us

User Review  - Jtp - Goodreads

fascinating read....I was honored to see Ms. Bornstein in performance at Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT many years ago...read this piece then...it still holds up. Bornstein speaks truth that is still ...

About the author

Kate Bornstein is a performance artist, actress and writer. She has appeared on Donahue, CNBC'S Real Personal, and other television talk shows. Her performances have drawn artistic praise from San Francisco to New York. Her most recent performance piece is The Opposite Gender is. . .Neither!.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us
• Author: Kate Bornstein
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Routledge Chapman & Hall, 1994
• ISBN: 0415908973, 9780415908979
• Length: 245 pages
• Subjects: Social Science / Gay Studies; Social Science / Gender Studies; Social Science / Lesbian Studies