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Self-Made
McCann, Richard | July 4, 1994 issue

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The article focuses on the book "Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us," by Kate Bornstein. This book is a radical document, even though it falters as a literary and intellectual work. Bornstein-who has chosen gender reassignment surgery and who describes herself as a transsexual lesbian whose female lover is becoming a man seeks to challenge a bipolar gender system. But if Bornstein challenges the social construction of transsexual identity, she does not reject transsexuality itself. "Gender Outlaw," is situated at a point equidistant from the memoir and the work of cultural analysis, but it often reads like a self-help book.

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GENDER Outlaw: On Men, Women & the Rest of Us (Book); BORNSTEIN, Kate; BOOKS; GENDER; TRANSSEXUALS; TRANSGENDER people
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