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    <body><![CDATA[This book is totally problematic...as Judith Halberstam discusses in &quot;In a Queer Time and Place&quot;.  Tipton's life as a jazz musician is interesting and colorful.  Middlebrook makes a choice to use both male and female pronouns and flips back and forth between the pronouns and birth name and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26744691">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[i loved this book. but i sort of didn't like how the author offered billy's musicianship and need to fit into a man's world the main reason behind his trans-identity. the cause/effect of that was annoying to me. how about he was trans because he was a man? anyway, besides that i loved the book.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[it's an amazing story, but written by someone who doesn't seem to understand trans identity as well as i'd like.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Fascinating biography of a jazz musician who &quot;passed&quot; as a man in the years of vaudeville and the Great Depression.  Drawn to this because I have read Middlebrook's biographies of Sylvia Plath/Ted Hughes and Anne Sexton, and because Billy/Dorothy Tipton shared my birthdate, it was a curiou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60636742">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Diane Middlebrook is a great biographer.  Sadly, I found out about her because I stumbled across her obituary on Stanford's webpage several months ago.  RIP.<br/><br/>The story of Billy Tipton as she wrote it is very compelling.  I'm quite sure the truth about Billy being Dorothy first made news i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17857212">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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