Amateur (eBook)

A True Story About What Makes a Man

Thomas Page McBee (Autor)

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2018
224 Seiten
Canongate Books (Verlag)
978-1-78689-099-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionIn this groundbreaking new book, Thomas Page McBee, a trans man, trains to fight in a charity match at Madison Square Garden while struggling to untangle the vexed relationship between masculinity and violence.Through his experience of boxing – learning to get hit, and to hit back; wrestling with the camaraderie of the gym; confronting the betrayals and strength of his own body – McBee examines the weight of male violence, the pervasiveness of gender stereotypes and the limitations of conventional masculinity. A wide-ranging exploration of gender in our society, Amateur is ultimately a story of hope, as McBee traces a way forward: a new masculinity, inside the ring and out of it.A graceful and uncompromising exploration of living, fighting and healing, in Amateur we gain insight into the stereotypes and shifting realities of masculinity today through the eyes of a new man.

Autor

Thomas Page McBee was 'masculinity expert' for Vice and the first trans man ever to box at Madison Square Garden. His essays and reportage have appeared in the New York Times, Playboy, Glamour and Salon. @ThomasPageMcBee | thomaspagemcbee.com

Rezensionen

A vitally important book. McBee's story harnesses the power of self-inquiry, of generosity, of a transformation powerful enough to address even the fallout from child abuse

A sweet, tender hurt of a memoir . . . McBee shows us what it takes to become a man who is gloriously, gloriously alive

By turns despairing and hopeful, exceptional and relatable. To read it is to witness the birth of a fuller, truer self

Amateur provocatively describes the ways in which an increasingly fragile patriarchal culture needs to keep men in their place. A quest for self-liberation, this loving and deeply intelligent exploration of contemporary masculinities is essential reading

Empathy is McBee's objective, the most important part of becoming real in one's own eyes . . . we are born human; with hard work, we achieve humanity

McBee's beautifully written story is engrossing and brave, and rings with triumph

Thomas Page McBee writes about manhood - in all its danger and damaged allure - more beautifully and with greater nuance than any other writer I know. Man Alive is a brilliant, necessary book

A brilliant work of art. I bow down to McBee - his humility, his sense of humour, his insightfulness, his structural deftness, his ability to put into words what is often said but rarely, with such visceral clarity and beauty, communicated

Like sitting with someone uncurling his hands, then holding them out to you, open, so that you can behold all the hard-won strength, insight, agility, and love to be found there

A blazingly wise and beautiful book

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.8.2018
• Verlagsort: Edinburgh
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Kampfsport / Selbstverteidigung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Alison Bechdel • Amateur • Ann Friedman • Bad Feminist • ben macintyre • bluets • Carl Zimmer • Chernobyl • Darling Days • family memoir • Fun Home • Gender identity • Grayson Perry • Hannah Fry • Heidi Julavits • Hello World • Imperial Twilight • iO Tillett Wright • Jack Halberstam • Jill Soloway • Juliet Jacques • Maggie Nelson • Man Alive • Olivia Laing • Orange is the new black • Prelude to a Bruise • Roxane Gay • Saeed Jones • Serhii Plokhy • She Has Her Mother’s Laugh • Stephen R Platt • The Argonauts • The Descent of Man • The Lonely City • The Queer Art of Failure • The Spy and the Traitor • The Vanishers • Thomas Page McBee • Trans • Transgender • transgender memoir • Transparent
• ISBN-10: 1-78689-099-2 / 1786890992
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78689-099-3 / 9781786890993