Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods--My Mother's, My Father's, and Mine by Howey, Noelle

Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods--My Mother's, My Father's, and Mine (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780312422202)

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Format: Paperback
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Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods--My Mother's, My Father's, and Mine by Howey, Noelle

Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods--My Mother's, My Father's, and Mine

$24.00
Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods--My Mother's, My Father's, and Mine by Howey, Noelle

Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods--My Mother's, My Father's, and Mine

$24.00
Format: Paperback
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An intensely felt and extraordinary family memoir by Noelle Howey, who characterizes her touching and confusing sexual journey into womanhood as influenced by her relationship with her transgendered father and tomboy mother.

Throughout her childhood in suburban Ohio, Noelle struggled to gain love and affection from her distant father. In compensating for her father's brusqueness, Noelle idolized her nurturing tomboy mother and her conservative grandma who tried to turn her into a little lady. At age fourteen, Noelle's mom told her the family secret: Dad likes to wear women's clothes. As Noelle copes with a turbulent adolescence, her father begins to metamorphose into the loving parent she had always longed for--only now outfitted in pedal pushers and pink lipstick.

With edgy humor, courage, and remarkable sensitivity, Noelle Howey challenges all of our beliefs in what constitutes gender and a normal family.

Author: Noelle Howey
ISBN-10: 0312422202
ISBN-13: 9780312422202
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Language: English
Published: 05/02/2003
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.48w x 0.88d
By Noelle Howey
By Noelle Howey
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Noelle Howey is the co-editor of Out of the Ordinary: Essays on Growing Up with Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Parents, winner of two 2000 Lambda Literary Awards. She has also written for Ms., Jane, Mother Jones, Teen People, Bitch, Mademoiselle, and Self. A finalist for a GLAAD Media Award, she received a 2001 Nonfiction Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. An Ohio native, Noelle Howey lives in Minneapolis with her husband.

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