GenderQueer: Voices From Beyond the Sexual Binary
by Riki Anne Wilchins and J.T. LeRoy and Susan Wright and Hilda Raz and Carrie Davis and Joan Nestle and Peggy Munson and Clare Howell and Allen James and Raven Kaldera and Robin Maltz and Allie Lie and Lucas Dzmura and Chino Lee Chung and Ethan Zimmerman and L. Maurer and Loree Cook-Daniels and Cheryl Chase and Dawn Dougherty and Toni Amato and Stacey Montgomery and Barb Greve and C. Jacob Hale and Nancy Nangeroni and Gordene MacKenzie and Wally Baird and Kristen Walker and Sylvia Rivera and Rusty Mae Moore and Gina Reiss and Aaron Link and Debbie Fraker and Sonya Bolus and Mollie Biewald
Perhaps more than any other issue, gender identity has galvanized the queer community in recent years. The questions go beyond the nature of male/female to a yet-to-be-traversed region that lies somewhere between and beyond biologically determined gender. In this groundbreaking anthology, three experts in gender studies and politics navigate around rigid, societally imposed concepts of two genders to discover and illuminate the limitless possibilities of identity. Thirty first-person accounts of gender construction, exploration, and questioning provide a groundwork for cultural discussion, political action, and even greater possibilities of autonomous gender choices. Noted scholar Joan Nestle is joined by internationally prominent gender warrior Riki Anne Wilchins and historian Clare Howell to provide a societal, cultural, and political exploration of gender identity. Marketing Plans: National Advertising: The Advocate Academic mailing to gender studies and queer studies professors Media campaign hilighting authors Nestle and Wilchins Joan Nestle is the cofounder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives in New York and the writer and editor of six books including the groundbreaking Women on Women series. Riki Anne Wilchins is the executive director of GenderPAC, the national gender advocacy group, and the cofounder of the Gender Identity Project of New York City's Lesbian and Gay Center. She is the author of Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender. Clare Howell is a senior librarian at the Brooklyn Public Library.
Release Date:
July 31, 2002
