{"product_id":"through-the-door-of-life-joy-ladin-9780299287344","title":"Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey between Genders","description":"\u003cp\u003eProfessor Jay Ladin made headlines around the world when, after years of teaching literature at Yeshiva University, he returned to the Orthodox Jewish campus as a woman-Joy Ladin. In \u003ci\u003eThrough the Door of Life\u003c\/i\u003e, Joy Ladin takes readers inside her transition as she changed genders and, in the process, created a new self.\u003cbr\u003e With unsparing honesty and surprising humor, Ladin wrestles with both the practical problems of gender transition and the larger moral, spiritual, and philosophical questions that arise. Ladin recounts her struggle to reconcile the pain of her experience living as the \"wrong\" gender with the pain of her children in losing the father they love. We eavesdrop on her lifelong conversations with the God whom she sees both as the source of her agony and as her hope for transcending it. We look over her shoulder as she learns to walk and talk as a woman after forty-plus years of walking and talking as a man. We stare with her into the mirror as she asks herself how the new self she is creating will ever become real.\u003cbr\u003e Ladin's poignant memoir takes us from the death of living as the man she knew she wasn't, to the shattering of family and career that accompanied her transition, to the new self, relationships, and love she finds when she opens the door of life. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 2012 Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award for Biography, Autobiography, or Memoir \"Wrenching-and liberating. . . .[it] opens up new ways of looking at gender and the place of LGBT Jews in community.\"-\u003ci\u003eGreater Phoenix Jewish News\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Given her high-profile academic position, Ladin's transition was a major news story in Israel and even internationally. But behind the public story was a private struggle and learning experience, and Ladin pulls no punches in telling that story. She offers a peek into how daunting it was to learn, with little support from others, how to dress as a middle-aged woman, to mu on make-up, to walk and talk like a female. She provides a front-row seat for observing how one person confronted a seemingly impossible situation and how she triumphed, however shakingly, over the many adversities, both societal and psychological, that stood in the way.\"-\u003ci\u003eThe Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joy Ladin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0299287343\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780299287344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Wisconsin Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/08\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.71lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.23h x 5.59w x 0.58d","brand":"Joy Ladin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44048478798079,"sku":"9780299287344","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_56ae6127-11ad-4679-aee3-4e57c214ac23.jpg?v=1684995999","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/through-the-door-of-life-joy-ladin-9780299287344","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}