Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

di Thomas Page McBee (Autore)

Canongate Books, 2018

Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction In this groundbreaking new book, Thomas Page McBee, a trans man, trains to fight in a charity match at Madison Square Garden while struggling to untangle the vexed relationship between masculinity and violence. Through his experience of boxing - learning to get hit, and to hit back; wrestling with the camaraderie of the gym; confronting the betrayals and strength of his own body - McBee examines the weight of male violence, the pervasiveness of gender stereotypes and the limitations of conventional masculinity. A wide-ranging exploration of gender in our society, Amateur is ultimately a story of hope, as McBee traces a way forward: a new masculinity, inside the ring and out of it. A graceful and uncompromising exploration of living, fighting and healing, in Amateur we gain insight into the stereotypes and shifting realities of masculinity today through the eyes of a new man.

• Autore: Thomas Page McBee
• Editore: Canongate Books
• Anno: 2018
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 224 p.
• Dimensioni: 220 x 144 mm
• Peso: 359 gr.
• EAN: 9781786890979

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