Amateur - A True Story About What Makes a Man. Nominiert: The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, 2018. Nominiert: Wellcome Book Prize, 2019
Verlag | Canongate Books |
Auflage | 2018 |
Seiten | 224 |
Format | 14,3 x 21,9 x 2,1 cm |
Gewicht | 346 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
ISBN-10 | 1786890976 |
EAN | 9781786890979 |
Bestell-Nr | 78689097UA |
Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
In 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.
Rezension:
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 DEBORAH LEVY