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  <title><![CDATA[Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us]]></title>
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  <default_description>Part coming-of-age story, part mind-altering manifesto on gender and sexuality, coming directly to you from the life experiences of a transsexual woman, Gender Outlaw breaks all the rules and leaves the reader forever changed.26 black-and-white illustrations.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1994</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Kate Bornstein]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Nov 14 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[While Bornstein raises interesting points (the idea of a third sexuality, neither male nor female), her arguments against recognizing gender suffered from her nearly complete ability to ignore that one key signifier....the ability to bear children, and her failure to discuss this issue within her th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35516992">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 16 15:37:32 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Oct 16 15:37:32 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[My good friend Sarah Carter from studying abroad bought me this book and I started it right away. If for no other reason, I'm reading this to stir my thoughts and open my mind. Kate Bornstein challenges gender roles and claims to have hold onto none. Being born and raised a man, she changed her sex ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37855679">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Aug 07 09:15:41 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Aug 10 14:49:21 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book gets 1 star for some deeply problematic aspects, and 5 for raising such interesting questions.<br/><br/>Someday I want to read a book about transgender issues that is written by a sympathetic sociobiologist.  That is, I'd like it to be very supportive of transgender folks while also bein...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66542470">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Mar 23 20:33:49 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book changed the way my brain was organized, for real.  Granted, I have been a total gender theory nerd in a really obsessive way during parts of the last few years, but this seriously started it all.  I don't agree with everything she says, but she sure as hell blew my mind wide open as far as...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18476807">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61510691">
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  <date_added>Mon Jun 29 10:10:44 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Here's the thing: when I was in college, I read Judith Butler's Gender Trouble, and it made me feel crazy. That book was my first intro to gender deconstruction, and it left my head spinning and heart hurting. I felt like I was trapped in the gender system, and that was a miserable miserable place t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61510691">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="64548047">
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  <date_added>Wed Jul 22 12:41:11 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jul 22 12:43:42 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Don't let my review fully influence you. I'm sure this book is very enlightening and empowering for some genderqueer out there, but I just couldn't get through it. I just too fundamentally disagree with her on the value of science and biology, disagree on the most basic terminology and have no sympa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64548047">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <name><![CDATA[Heather]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Cincinnati, OH]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sat Apr 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Apr 25 14:31:38 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved Bornstein's book for teenagers, &quot;Hello Cruel World.&quot;  That's mainly a collection of alternatives to suicide, for teenagers and other freaks.  <br/><br/>This one is about an idea that she touches on but doesn't explore in depth in that book, the idea that gender isn't an either-or...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53663621">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="66897272">
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    <name><![CDATA[Alice]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Aug 10 18:02:46 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Aug 10 18:06:43 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Some of the things Bornstein talks about seem absolutely obvious to us now (i.e. decoupling gender from sex, societal influences on gender, etc), but were perhaps not quite so when the book was written. It's still useful as a primer on such things, especially for cisgendered people who haven't ever ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66897272">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="64419319">
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    <body><![CDATA[There is no one like Kate Bornstein. She is amazing. I met her at a gender conference and her early work as an actor (as a man) clearly gave rise to her current work as a performance artist (as a lesbian woman who has had a sex change). This books tells of her life as a man and finding herself withi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64419319">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="45874071">
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    <name><![CDATA[Peter]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this up after reading <em>My Gender Workbook</em>. I'm sad to say it wasn't as good, but then this was also an earlier piece.  I think that Kate's ideas have really developed in <em>Workbook</em>, but if you're a fan of hers, then this is still worth reading.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1994</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I saw the author at a bookstore presentation when this book first came out. She is attractive, funny, and complex. She and her book provide a comfortable way to first explore gender questions.]]></body>
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    <name><![CDATA[Michelle]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read this in college after hearing Bornstein lecture. Really was instrumental in forming my views on gender and valuable to my understanding of how gender fits into our society.]]></body>
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    <review id="70105383">
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    <name><![CDATA[Gretel]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1994</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am eternally grateful to Kate for challenging all my assumptions about gender and allowing me to build a more open and fluid understanding of the human condition.  ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book has really helped me uncover what it must be like to be a part of a minority that society has not yet come to terms with. ]]></body>
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    <review id="46996034">
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Taken as a memoir, this is a very powerful book; taken as a call for change, it's...dated, at best. Which the author herself covers: in a few places she hopes that people down the road will read this book and go &quot;wow, how homophobic she was&quot; or &quot;wow, her ideas are so dated&quot; becau...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46996034">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="73497335">
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    <name><![CDATA[Heather]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Oct 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Extremely interesting content; I could not put the book down. The layout is bizarre, though, and I found it distracting. ]]></body>
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    <review id="4265781">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[those interested in gender studies or those who just appreciate questioning everything]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Aug 08 11:11:57 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book includes bornstein's play Hidden: A Gender, which came as a great surprise right at the end of the book. the play is brilliantly written and is a nice companion read to the rest of the book. the book itself raises more questions than it answers-- exactly what ms. bornstein set out to do.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4265781">more...</a>]]></body>
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