{"product_id":"becoming-a-visible-man-jamison-green-9780826514561","title":"Becoming a Visible Man","description":"\u003cb\u003eSylvia Rivera Award for Best Book in Transgender Studies, 2004\u003cbr\u003eLambda Literary Award Finalist, 2004\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten by a leading activist in the transgender movement, \u003ci\u003eBecoming a Visible Man\u003c\/i\u003e is an artful and compelling inquiry into the politics of gender. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor more than a decade, Green has provided educational programs on gender-variance issues for corporations, law-enforcement agencies, social-science conferences and classes, continuing legal education, religious education, and medical venues. His comprehensive knowledge of the processes and problems encountered by transgendered and transsexual people--as well as his legal advocacy work to help ensure that gender-variant people have access to the same rights and opportunities as others--enable him to explain the issues as no transsexual author has previously done. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBrimming with frank and often poignant recollections of Green's own experiences--including his childhood struggles with identity and his years as a lesbian parent prior to his sex-reassignment surgery--the book examines transsexualism as a human condition, and sex reassignment as one of the choices that some people feel compelled to make in order to manage their gender variance. Relating the FTM psyche and experience to the social and political forces at work in American society, \u003ci\u003eBecoming a Visible Man\u003c\/i\u003e also speaks consciously of universal principles that concern us all, particularly the need to live one's life honestly, openly, and passionately.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jamison Green\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0826514561\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780826514561\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vanderbilt University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/04\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.13lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.34h x 6.22w x 0.88d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Lambda Literary Awards - Nominee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eUniv PR Books for Public Libry\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2005 pg. 16 - Strongly Recommended","brand":"Jamison Green","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44540438380799,"sku":"9780826514561","price":99.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4dd4a058-314d-4ddd-809d-b078348ecf41.jpg?v=1700587906","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/becoming-a-visible-man-jamison-green-9780826514561","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}