5/22/2023 0 Comments Transgender warriors feinberg![]() ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, excessive polemics mire Feinberg in repetition and ideological catch-phrases instead of letting transgender's textured and often painful history speak for itself, she is continually hitting the reader over the head with preachings about the (admittedly very real) injustices Western society has visited upon those who do not fit neatly into the gender categories society assigns them. References to the author's personal experiences as a transgendered lesbian, as well as profiles of contemporary transgender activists, ground the book in present-day struggles. Feinberg (Stone Butch Blues, 1993) has undertaken a history of transgender, a term used, Feinberg explains, ``to include everyone who challenges the boundaries of sex and gender'' or, as one activist puts it, to describe those individuals who live ``full time in the gender opposite to their anatomy.'' It is a readable pop history, full of intriguing tidbits about past gender outlaws: For example, Joan of Arc was burned at the stake not for her resistance to the English but for the crime of cross-dressing. A much-needed project, unfortunately weighed down by repetition and clichÇ. ![]()
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