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My New Gender Workbook - Second Edition Now Available

2013-03-04T08:44:11Q

Would you like a step-by-step guide to achieving world peace through gender anarchy and sex positivity?

Cultural theorists have written loads of smart but difficult-to-fathom texts on gender theory, but most fail to provide a hands-on, accessible guide for those trying to sort out their own sexual identities. In My New Gender Workbook, transgender activist Kate Bornstein brings theory down to Earth and provides a practical approach to living with or without a gender.

Bornstein starts from the premise that there are not just two genders performed in today's world, but countless genders lumped under the two-gender framework. Using a unique, deceptively simple and always entertaining workbook format, complete with quizzes, exercises, and puzzles, Bornstein gently but firmly guides readers toward discovering their own unique gender identity.

"My Gender Workbook may take a leap of faith to crack open, but the charm, wit, and quiet intelligence of its author will almost undoubtedly keep you along for the whole trip. And it is a trip, let me tell you."
The Toronto Star

Since its first publication in 1997, My Gender Workbook has been challenging, encouraging, questionning, and handholding those trying to figure out how to become a "real man," a "real woman," or "something else entirely." In this updated edition of her classic text, Bornstein re-examines gender in light of issues like race and class. With new quizzes, new puzzles, new exercises, and plenty of Kate's over-the-top style, My New Gender Workbook, 2e promises to help a new generation create their own unique place on the gender spectrum.

Featured Book: Surviving Dictatorship

2012-04-10T13:55:14Q

Jacqueline Adams' Surviving Dictatorship focuses on shantytown women in Pinochet's Chile, examining how they join groups to cope with exacerbated impoverishment and targeted repression, and how this leads them into very varied forms of resistance aimed at self-protection, community-building, and mounting an offensive.

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Featured Book: Sex/Gender

2012-04-10T13:13:16Q

Anne Fausto-Sterling's Sex/Gender is the only interdisciplinary book for undergraduate courses to explain sex and gender from a biological, social, and cultural perspective.

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Featured Book: Feminist Solidarity at the Crossroads

2012-02-06T13:58:12Q

Feminist Solidarity at the Crossroads articulates a politics of commitment, hope, and possibility wrought in the coming-together of a group of feminist women and men—across racial, cultural, nation/state, sexual, and gender differences—during a tough budgetary time threatening Women’s Studies programs across the nation.

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Featured Book: Rethinking Women’s and Gender Studies

2012-02-03T16:15:44Q

"[Rethinking Women's and Gender Studies'] focus on key words in women’s and gender studies admirably maps past debates, interrogates unexamined assumptions, and pushes the boundaries of the field into new areas such as religion. An absorbing read for WGS faculty and excellent for intermediate/advanced courses in WGS."—Susan Stanford Friedman, Women’s Studies and Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Featured Book: The Womanist Idea

2012-02-03T16:08:40Q

Following on the heels of The Womanist Reader, Layli Maparyan's The Womanist Idea offers a comprehensive, systematic analysis of womanism.

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