Amateur: A Reckoning With Gender, Identity and Masculinity
Author(s): Thomas Page McBee
Non-Fiction & Guides | Memoirs / Own Voices | Identity - LGBTQIA+ / Queer | Identity - Transgender
In this groundbreaking book, Thomas Page McBee, a trans man, trains to fight in a charity match at Madison Square Garden while struggling to untangle the vexed relationship between masculinity and violence. Through his experience of boxing - learning to get hit, and to hit back; wrestling with the camaraderie of the gym; confronting the betrayals and strength of his own body - McBee examines the weight of male violence, the pervasiveness of gender stereotypes and the limitations of conventional masculinity. A wide-ranging exploration of gender in our society, Amateur is ultimately a story of hope, as McBee traces a way forward: a new masculinity, inside the ring and out of it. A graceful and uncompromising exploration of living, fighting and healing, in Amateur we gain insight into the stereotypes and shifting realities of masculinity today through the eyes of a new man.
Product Information
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- : Canongate Books
- : Canongate Books
- : 0.154
- : 01 March 2019
- : .551 Inches X 5.079 Inches X 7.795 Inches
- : books
Special Fields
- : Thomas Page McBee
- : Paperback
- : 1906
- : English
- : 224