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The Transgender Issue - An Argument for Justice (Hardcover)
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The Transgender Issue - An Argument for Justice (Hardcover)
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List price R629
Loot Price R515
Discovery Miles 5 150
You Save R114 (18%)
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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Few books are as urgent as
Shon Faye's debut ... Faye has hope for the future - and maybe so
should we' Independent 'Unsparing, important and weighty ... a
vitally needed antidote' Observer 'Takes the status quo by the
lapels and gives it a shaking' Times Literary Supplement Trans
people in Britain today have become a culture war 'issue'. Despite
making up less than one per cent of the country's population, they
are the subjects of a toxic and increasingly polarized 'debate'
which generates reliable controversy for newspapers and talk shows.
This media frenzy conceals a simple fact: that we are having the
wrong conversation, a conversation in which trans people themselves
are reduced to a talking point and denied a meaningful voice. In
this powerful new book, Shon Faye reclaims the idea of the
'transgender issue' to uncover the reality of what it means to be
trans in a transphobic society. In doing so, she provides a
compelling, wide-ranging analysis of trans lives from youth to old
age, exploring work, family, housing, healthcare, the prison system
and trans participation in the LGBTQ+ and feminist communities, in
contemporary Britain and beyond. The Transgender Issue is a
landmark work that signals the beginning of a new, healthier
conversation about trans life. It is a manifesto for change, and a
call for justice and solidarity between all marginalized people and
minorities. Trans liberation, as Faye sees it, goes to the root of
what our society is and what it could be; it offers the possibility
of a more just, free and joyful world for all of us. 'Fundamentally
not a culture-war book. It operates outside the narrow coverage of
trans people in the mainstream, and lays bare the inarguable facts'
New Statesman 'Monumental and utterly convincing - crystal clear in
its understanding of how the world should be' Judith Butler
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