An extraordinary memoir of transition and transgender politics and culture
"Six weeks before sex reassignment surgery (SRS), I am obliged to stop
taking my hormones. I suddenly feel very differently about my forthcoming operation."
In July 2012, aged thirty, Juliet Jacques underwent sex reassignment surgery-a
process she chronicled with unflinching honesty in a serialised national newspaper
column. Trans tells of her life to the present moment: a story of growing up,
of defining yourself, and of the rapidly changing world of gender politics.
Fresh from university, eager to escape a dead-end job, she launches a career
as a writer in a publishing culture dominated by London cliques and still figuring
out the impact of the Internet. She navigates the treacherous waters of a world
where, even in the liberal and feminist media, transgender identities go unacknowledged,
misunderstood or worse. Yet through art, film, music, politics and football,
Jacques starts to become the person she had only imagined, and begins the process
of transition. Interweaving the personal with the political, her memoir is a
powerful exploration of debates that comprise trans politics, issues which promise
to redefine our understanding of what it means to be alive.
Revealing, honest, humorous, and self-deprecating, Trans includes an epilogue
with Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be? , in which Jacques and Heti
discuss the cruxes of writing and identity.
Verlag: Durnell Seiten: 320 S. Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Ausführung: Kartonierter Einband (Kt)
