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Edition: | 1st |
Publisher: | Hachette Book Group |
ISBN: | 0-316-34781-7 (0316347817) |
ISBN-13: | 978-0-316-34781-5 (9780316347815) |
Binding: | E E Book + ProQuest Ebook Central |
Copyright: | 2017 |
Publish Date: | 03/17 |
Weight: | 0.00 Lbs. |
Subject Class: | PSY (Psychiatry and Psychology) |
Return Policy: | Non-Returnable. |
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Abstract: | My name is Hida Viloria. I was raised as a girl but discovered at a young age that my body looked different. Having endured an often turbulent home life as a kid, there were many times when I felt scared and alone, especially given my attraction to girls. But unlike most people in the first world who are born intersex--meaning they have genitals, reproductive organs, hormones, and/or chromosomal patterns that do not fit standard definitions of male or female--I grew up in the body I was born with because my parents did not have my sex characteristics surgically altered at birth. It wasn't until I was twenty-six and encountered the term intersex in a San Francisco newspaper that I finally had a name for my difference. That's when I began to explore what it means to live in the space between genders--to be both and neither. I tried living as a feminine woman, an androgynous person, and even for a brief period of time as a man. Good friends would not recognize me, and gay men would hit on me. My gender fluidity was exciting, and in many ways freeing--but it could also be isolating. ... Born Both is the story of my lifelong journey toward finding love and embracing my authentic identity in a world that insists on categorizing people into either/or, and of my decades-long fight for human rights and equality for intersex people everywhere. |
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