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Bezig met laden... Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey between Genders (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog)door Joy Ladin
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Just exquisite. Ladin's memoir of transitioning is full of heartbreak, humor and honesty, unsparing in its analysis of the difficulties she faced en route to becoming her true self (including an ongoing struggle with G-d as well as concerns about her family and career). To her credit, this is not a happily-ever-after tale, as she acknowledges the pain that her transition caused her family and is upfront about the complicated relationships she now has with her children. I am so thankful to have a much fuller understanding of what it's like for someone whose soul doesn't match one's biological identity, and grateful for Ladin's courage and openness. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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National Jewish Book Award Finalist for Memoir. Professor Jay Ladin made headlines around the world when, after years of teaching literature at Yeshiva University, he returned to the Orthodox Jewish campus as a woman-Joy Ladin. In Through the Door of Life, Joy Ladin takes readers inside her transition as she changed genders and, in the process, created a new self. With unsparing honesty and surprising humour, Ladin wrestles with both the practical problems of gender transition and the larger moral, spiritual, and philosophical questions that arise. Ladin recounts her struggle to reconcile the pain of her experience living as the "wrong" gender with the pain of her children in losing the father they love. We eavesdrop on her lifelong conversations with the God whom she sees both as the source of her agony and as her hope for transcending it. We look over her shoulder as she learns to walk and talk as a woman after forty-plus years of walking and talking as a man. We stare with her into the mirror as she asks herself how the new self she is creating will ever become real. Ladin's poignant memoir takes us from the death of living as the man she knew she wasn't, to the shattering of family and career that accompanied her transition, to the new self, relationships, and love she finds when she opens the door of life. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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