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A Queer and Pleasant Danger: A memoir by Kate Bornstein

2013; Open Library of Humanities; Volume: 12; Linguagem: Inglês

10.16995/bst.68

ISSN

1470-9120

Autores

Lisa Newman,

Tópico(s)

Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies

Resumo

Lisa Newman reviews the new autobiography, A Queer and Pleasant Danger by transgender artist, writer, and activist, Kate Bornstein. The memoir gives an account of Bornstein's unusual journey from her beginnings as a young Jewish boy, to being promoted to first-mate to L. Ron Hubbard in Scientology, to becoming a transgendered performance artist; or in her words 'the girl she is today'. Brief references and descriptions of Bornstein's other novels are included, giving an overview of her literary body of work.

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