"I know I''m not a man...and I've come to the conclusion that I'm probably not a woman, either...The trouble is, we're living in a work that insists we be one or the other."
This is an early passage from Kate Bornstein's wonderful Gender Outlaw, a book that looks at and challenges and liberates from a whole bunch of conventional notions about this thing we call gender. I am finding it a magnificent read, every bit as insightful - and a whole lot lighter - than one of my other favourites, Julia Serano's Whipping Girl.
Curiously, though, when I do a search for this title on Susan's, I find only one post from 2011. Broadening my search to include Ms Kate herself, only one other post is added.
So I am wondering, has anyone else read this book? Does anyone else have strong feelings about what it offers? Or, for that matter, feelings about any other Bornstein works? Though I have only read passages, her recent memoir, Queer and Pleasant Danger, also seems fascinating. Would love to hear...
