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"Earnest, diligent and defiantly optimistic....What gives this book its real heat — is more personal; it’s the challenge posed to [Stein's] own cherished beliefs."—Parul Sehgal, The New York Times“A book written by a sociologist who writes like a novelist. It's a rare nonfiction page-turner and an important book.” —Rebecca Makkai, Conde Nast Traveler"Sensitive....A much needed primer for those who are puzzled by contemporary discussions about gender."—The New Yorker“Moves beyond the popular fixation on bathroom politics to explore individual lives.”—The Washington Post “Moving.... By allowing her subjects to speak for themselves as those selves are reinvented in various ways, Stein leaves room for productive conversations to appear.”—Harper’s Magazine “For readers bewildered by how to make sense of gender today.... Having received rave reviews, for those wanting to learn more about transgender people, especially as their issues continue to make news, Unbound serves as a useful primer.”—The Bay Area Reporter“Stein tracks the rapid evolution of gender identity in this provocative group portrait of trans men....Her book succeeds in documenting what it means to be trans today.” —Publishers Weekly “Arlene Stein brings insight, wit, and generosity to this perceptive analysis of the dazzling shifts in how we imagine, and live out, gender today. Unbound will surprise readers who thought they had this figured out decades ago.” —Janice Irvine, Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts“A new sociological study on transgender individuals and their experience transitioning. This significant book provides medical, sociological, and psychological information that can only serve to educate those lacking understanding and awareness of an entire community of individuals who deserve representation. A stellar exploration of the complexities and limitations of gender.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred)“If you’ve been trying to make sense of how gender today seems to have slipped the chains that bind it to our bodies in familiar ways, Unbound is a book for you. It’s a sympathetic account by non-transgender sociologist Arlene Stein, aimed at a primarily non-transgender audience, of four people assigned female at birth who surgically masculinize their chests. Stein helps her readers understand that they, too, no longer need be bound by conventional expectations of the meaning of our flesh.” —Susan Stryker, founding co-editor, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly“In this gripping, illuminating and clear-eyed portrait of what it means to be transmasculine in today’s America, Arlene Stein does justice to an oft-misrepresented topic. A vivid and fiercely empathetic narrative that juxtaposes nuanced portraits of these young people with a clearly articulated understanding of what it means to navigate a culture that treats gender minorities with contempt, ignorance, and violence. Unbound is a revelatory read that fills an important role in gender studies.” —Ryan Berg, author of No House to Call My Home“Unbound is a timely and critical response to the loud silence permeating the current public discourse on gender and transgender experiences, especially the lived realities of transgender men within the US. A critical and stunning work that will shift the ways gender has been politicized and imagined. Should be required reading for all.” —Darnell L. Moore, author of No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America
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About the Author
ARLENE STEIN is a professor of sociology at Rutgers University and director of the Institute for Research on Women. The author of six books, she received the Ruth Benedict Prize for her book The Stranger Next Door. Stein has written for The Nation, Jacobin, and The New Inquiry, among other publications. She lives in New Jersey.
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Product details
Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Pantheon (June 5, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9781524747459
ISBN-13: 978-1524747459
ASIN: 1524747459
Product Dimensions:
6 x 1.2 x 8.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.7 out of 5 stars
9 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
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Enjoyable read, but I thought there would be more interviews. This is more of a case study with additional interviews. I wish there had been more discussion of the dynamic definitions of trans that are emerging and what they new definitions mean.
Arlene Stein deftly reports on a group of transgender men as they go through gender-affirming treatment and in the process offers a powerful and illuminating set of analyses on the shifting nature of gender identity in our time.
Good read
My spouse is FTM and is starting his journey this year. I gave him this book and he loved it.
Would especially recommend this book to transmen coping with the profound complexities of transition from a social perspective.
Like her previous books, Professor Arlene Stein's newest exploration of women who undergo surgery as part of the transition to being/identifying as men is extremely well-written, thoughtfully analyzed, sensitively portrayed, and sociologically rich.As someone who does not have an expertise in gender identity, per se, but is deeply fascinating by the new ways in which gender is being constructed, deconstructed, challenged, innovated, and transgressed, I found this book to be deeply compelling, illuminating, thought provoking, and at times, quite disturbing.Dr. Stein follows the experiences of various individuals -- we learn about their struggles, their triumphs, their families, their relationships, their sex lives, their sense of self, the medical procedures they go through -- and thus we are treated to a set of deeply human stories. But what makes this book intellectually rich, is that weaving throughout the stories are theoretical insights and sociological ponderings about the very dynamic nature of gender and sexuality and what it means to be a man and a woman, what it means to be a lesbian, or queer, etc.And Dr. Stein brings herself into the analysis as well, reflecting on her own experiences.In sum, I learned a ton. And the book has spurred numerous conversations with family, friends, and colleagues.It is extremely timely, too. For anyone who wants to understand what the comtemporary transgender experience is all about, this book is an absolute must.
The book explores the topic of transgender men when the author meets four people born as women in the waiting room of America’s top surgeon in chest masculinization, Dr. Russell Sassani in the LGBT haven of Ft. Lauderdale. So many people born as women are having their chests masculinized in Ft. Lauderdale that a transgender couple has bought a large house and turned it into short term housing for the week male transgender chest masculinization patients need to be near their doctor for recovery and follow up care. Three of the people at the surgeon’s office will be transformed into men in one week when the bandages come off. One will remain as a woman with drastically smaller breasts. She has embraced a queer identity and will remain a woman but a less obvious one when she wishes to appear masculine. This well-written and insightful book follows their lives for a year after the surgery. Featured prominently in the book is ben from a suburb in Portland, Maine who transitions with his parents in the community where he was raised. Ben’s story is compelling with its account of activism, despair, family struggle, love, support, loss, resilience, political confrontation, and community integration. The author, Arlene Stein, writes a compelling narrative that integrates the lives of the four with her own life as an open lesbian and broadly accepted research and trends with transgender people overall. She helps the reader understand the rise of the transgender phenomenon and explores the possibility of how and why people who might have identified as gay or lesbian in previous eras are now openly modifying their bodies and developing an entirely new gender identity. Stein had unusual access to Ben’s family and personal life. It reminded me of the 1973 PBS documentary “An American Family,†that tracked a middle class family in Santa Barbara, California in 1973. The eldest son, Lance Loud, is gay and comes out to his parents in front of the filmmakers during one of the most dramatic moments of the 12-hour production. Unlike lance, Ben and the other individuals are identified by pseudonyms and their real names are not used, in fear of their own safety and security. The book has a dramatic ending, which I will not spoil, but it is worth reading the book through the afterword. This single author delivered more than what I expected in this book. She did not have a team of research assistants and a six figure budget. This would have allowed her team to hang out in the doctor’s office for several weeks to obtain 50 or more profiles and to choose more and different kinds of people from this larger pool of subjects. She also followed up in person only with Ben and maintained contact by video phone with the others. More resources would have allowed her to have a bigger pool of people and to have lengthy visits with each one in their home communities a half year and year following the surgery. Such a book would have certainly yielded a lot more information but probably not more insights and knowledge about transgender men than what is contained in the current book. I thank the author for offering this extremely timely and highly informative work.
I so appreciate many aspects of this read, and believe it does a good job of humanzing the transmasculine experience, and the experiences of family and friends of transgender folk. I don't want to discourage anyone from reading it (or listening to the Audiobook, which was my preferred format). However, I feel it's important to offer a caution based in my own viseral response. As an androsexual transmasculine person I experienced dysphoria mid-way through the book when it's focus turned almost exclusively to the relationship between transmasculine experience and lesbianism.It seems strange to me that the author would initially distinguish between gender identity and sexual orientation at a surface level, then go on to completely exclude androsexuality from the conversation. Throughout the book there was barely a passing mention of the possibility that a transman could be attracted to another man! How did this happen? I expect this has to do with the author's academic speciality and personal sexual orientation, but that rational did little to soothe my dissappointment or sense of being completely ejected from the conversation half way through the text.Folks, read the book. There's a lot of good stuff here. But, do not take away an assumption that all transmasculine folk are attracted to women. Author, if you get a chance to do a second print, please find a way to address this issue, and perhaps include the voice of at least one "gay" transman. Thank-you.
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