All About Yves

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2021
Edition: First Edition

Description: 307 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Was I always trans, part boy beneath my skin, or was it that I landed in a place where ‘girl was a container so small it could break your bonesI learn that a ready smile and sympathetic ear are the only props required to impersonate a woman. The performance becomes so familiar I almost forget that its staged.What happens when, aged 30, you understand youre transgenderThis was the question that confronted Yves Rees, a historian whose life was upended by gender transition in 2018. Then known as a woman called Anne, Yves was forced to grapple with the sudden knowledge that they were not, in fact, female at all.But when youve lived a lie for so long, how do you discover who you really are And how do you re-learn to live in the world as a different genderAll About Yves tells their moving journey of re-becoming, at the same time laying bare the messiness of bodies, gender and identity. It shares the challenges and joys of being transgender in Australia today, and reveals how trans experiences like Yves can teach all of us about what it means to be man or woman.

ISBN: 9781760879310