商品簡介
Moving memoir and insightful examination of transgender politics
TRANS is the story of growing up, of finding an identity, and about the politics of gender. In July 2012, aged thirty, Juliet Jacques underwent sex reassignment surgery and felt for the first time that her body matched the person she felt she had been since childhood. Through university and then in a series of dead-end clerical jobs, Jacques felt out of place with her surroundings, and with who she really was.
Living in Brighton, trying to launch a career as a writer, she navigates the hostilities and misunderstandings of growing up in a time where the mainstream media—and even feminism—fail to acknowledge transgender identity. Yet through films, music, politics and football she begins to find herself, and starts the process of transition, and life beyond. Through her memoir, Jacques interweaves the narrative with powerful explorations of many of the major debates surrounding trans: the uses of life writing, the relationship with feminism, and the “before and after” images that illustrated so many articles and documentaries.
Brilliantly written, revealing and honest, TRANS also includes an epilogue with award-winning author Sheila Heti, in which Jacques and Heti discuss the issues facing transgender people.
From the Hardcover edition.
作者簡介
Juliet Jacques is a freelance author, best known for writing A Transgender Journeyfor The Guardian—the first time the gender reassignment process has been serialized for a major British publication, and which was long listed for the Orwell Prize in 2011. She was included inThe Independent’s Pink Lists for 2012, 2013 and 2014, and is a regular blogger forThe New Statesman. She has also written for Granta, The London Review of Books,TimeOut, The New Humanist, The New Inquiry, Filmwaves,3am and many other publications and websites. She lives in London.
From the Hardcover edition.
