Queer and Pleasant Danger The True Story of a Nice Jewish Boy Who Joins the Church of Scientology, and Leaves Twelve Years Later to Become the Lovely Lady She Is Today

Name: Queer and Pleasant Danger The True Story of a Nice Jewish Boy Who Joins the Church of Scientology, and Leaves Twelve Years Later to Become the Lovely Lady She Is Today
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ISBN: 9780807001653

ISBN-10: 0807001651

ISBN-13: 9780807001653

Edition: 2012

Authors: Kate Bornstein

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A stunningly original memoir of a nice Jewish boy who joined the Church of Scientology and left twelve years later, ultimately transitioning to a woman. A few years later, she stopped calling herself a woman and became famous as a gender outlaw. Kate Bornstein—gender theorist, performance artist, author—is set to change lives with her compelling memoir. Wickedly funny and disarmingly honest, this is Bornstein's most intimate book yet, encompassing her early childhood and adolescence, college at Brown, a life in the theater, three marriages and fatherhood, the Scientology hierarchy, transsexual life, LGBTQ politics, and life on the road as a sought-after speaker.

Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 5/1/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 280
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

A celebrated pioneer for the LGBTQI community, transexual author and performance artist,Kate Bornstein, offers a pivotal critique of the gender binary that has become a staple in the study of Gender and Sexuality. Kate currently lives with her partner Barbara Carrellas in Spanish Harlem, New York City.



Prologue: The Kiss of Death






Go



The He-Man Woman-Hater's Club



What Sex Had to Do with It



Size Matters



A SciFi Writer, an Actor, and God Walk into a Bar






There's Nothing Funny about Any of This



Where Have All the Flowers Gone?



Love Was Never Free



Beached



Family Man



All Good Things






The Lost Boys



Over the Borderline



Stages of Life



OK, Kid, This Is Where It Gets Complicated



Girl Epilogue: Hello, Sweetie Some Notes on My Scientology Sources


Acknowledgments