this book is a breath of fresh air in the world of trans theory/non-fiction. personal and political, truly feminist all the way down. great critique of the objectification of trans people and bodies in the growing world of academic queer/trans studies. strategically argues for understanding the struggles for gender liberation as a coalition of allies rather than trying to fit everyone under one trans "umbrella". muscled it into my grad queer theory class to offer some balance to all the non-trans academics using trans people to prove a point about the 'construction' of gender.

**so we read a chapter of this in my grad class. they ripped it to shreds. then i found myself heavily critiquing it too, while managing to defend some of the points. warning: it's not academic theory. it's political and feminist theory, but not queer/gender theory the way it is conceptualized in academia right now. which is maybe a shame, and probably will change, but as of right now, if you love this book, maybe you want to keep it out of the high-theory classroom.**
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