{"product_id":"both-and-neither-alex-marzano-lesnevich-9780385547321","title":"Both and Neither: A Memoir and History of Gender (Or, a Haunting)","description":"\u003cb\u003eAuthor of \u003ci\u003eThe Fact of a Body\u003c\/i\u003e, and winner of this year's Whiting Award, Alex Marzano-Lesnevich considers how we bear witness to trans lives, past and present.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBoth and Neither\u003c\/i\u003e, Alex Marzano-Lesnevich weaves memoir and history into a singular work shaped by the figures who have long haunted them. Moving across centuries, they trace lives that have made and unmade gender in the public imagination, revealing how the past persists--intimately, insistently--within the present. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough meticulous research and vivid storytelling, Marzano-Lesnevich uncovers a constellation of historical figures: Joseph Lobdell, a nineteenth-century trans man institutionalized for loving a woman; Gerd Katter, a carpenter and early patient at Berlin's Institute for Sexual Science in the 1920s; Pauli Murray, the visionary thinker whose ideas anticipated feminist and civil rights movements decades ahead of their time; and Claude Cahun, whose radical art and self-fashioning defied gender norms throughout the first half of the twentieth century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs history unfolds, memoir bleeds into the archive. Marzano-Lesnevich turns a clear-eyed gaze on their own life and loves, reflecting on past romantic relationships. The rapture and pain of intimacy course through their story, binding personal experience to historical inquiry as the author traces their own becoming alongside those who came before. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVital, timely, and beautifully executed, \u003ci\u003eBoth and Neither\u003c\/i\u003e fuses maverick scholarship with profound emotional intelligence to recover a history long obscured. In doing so, Marzano-Lesnevich confirms their place as one of the most ambitious and original writers working today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alex Marzano-Lesnevich\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0385547323\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780385547321\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Doubleday Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/09\/2027\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Alex Marzano-Lesnevich","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48801488044287,"sku":"9780385547321","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/both-and-neither-alex-marzano-lesnevich-9780385547321","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}