Becoming a Visible Man
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| Rating | : | 4.80 (848 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 082651457X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 264 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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Excellent book. I can really relate Amazon Customer Excellent book. I can really relate. This should be required reading of healthcare providers, teacher, parents and anyone else who deals with people. I suppose that would mean everyone!!!. Buy this book! (From a girlfriend's perspective) When I first entertained the idea of dating a FTM, I was slightly overwhelmed by the myriad of questions in my head. From everyday situations, to intimate matters, my mind was filled with wonder.For me, education is key (that goes for everything) and I wanted to learn everything I co. A book for most FtMs I am a transitioning FtM, and I recommend this book for anyone who is beginning their transition, or who just wants to learn more about FtM history. Jamison Green writes about his own experience, and about the days when there was only a newsletter to subscribe to, instead of a whole
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. . in creative writing from the University of Oregon. He has also been featured in eight documentary films and numerous articles and books. He holds an M.F.A
From Booklist Gender goes beyond chromosomes, a point broadly knowledgeable transgender activist Green makes early in the compelling, immensely readable story of his FTM (female-to-male: Jamie to Jamison) transsexual experience, from which he emerged fortysomething chronologically yet younger than 20 psychosexually as a consequence of biochemical and surgical sex reassignment. Whitney ScottCopyright © American Library Association. Meanwhile, they will be educated by Green's detailed descriptions of available transsexual surgeries--he underwent metoidioplasty, the transformation of female genitalia into a male-appearing organ that, sometimes called a micropenis, is significantly smaller than average for penises, though functionally normal--and by his summary of his expenses since 1989 and his comparison of them to
Best Book in Transgender Studies, 2005 Winner, Center for Lesbian & Gay Studies (CLAGS), NY2005 Lambda Literary Award FinalistWritten by a leading activist in the transgender movement, Becoming a Visible Man is an artful and compelling inquiry into the politics of gender. 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.. 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 ag