Overview
This compassionate, constructive volume by renowned author Joy Ladin collects eleven essays written between 2008, on the cusp of what Time called America's ""transgender tipping point,"" and 2021, as anti-trans laws began metastasizing around America. Dr. Ladin, the first openly transgender employee of an Orthodox Jewish institution (Yeshiva University), a nationally known speaker on transgender identities and issues, and founding figure in trans poetry and trans theology, has lived through and contributed to gender's bitterly debated and still unfolding transformation. Drawing on her experiences as a trans parent, spouse, teacher, and author, she writes honestly and insightfully about gender, exploring its intersections with feminisms, psychotherapy, divinity, ontology, and even the poems of Emily Dickinson. Written for any curious reader, these essays teach us about who we are, who we can be, and what it means to be human.
Full Product Details
Author: Joy Ladin
Publisher: Persea Books
Imprint: Persea Books
Dimensions:
Width: 13.50cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 20.60cm
Weight: 0.249kg
ISBN: 9780892555864
ISBN 10: 0892555866
Pages: 184
Publication Date: 10 September 2024
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"""As a learned teacher with a poet's gentle voice, Joy Ladin invites her readers, in this affirming and resolute collection of essays, to slip beneath the churning surface of our world so that that we might behold the simpler truths and deeper mysteries of trans existence. Attuned to ethical and political as well as spiritual and existential concerns, Once Out of Nature brims with a quiet power.""--Susan Stryker, author of Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution"
Author Information
Joy Ladin is the author of many poetry collections, including The Future Is Trying to Tell Us Something: New and Selected Poems (Sheep Meadow Press, 2017). She has also published a memoir, Through the Door of Life: a Jewish Journey Between Genders (2012); a critical study, Soldering the Abyss: Emily Dickinson and Modern American Poetry (2010); and a work of creative non-fiction, The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective (2018). She is a professor at Yeshiva University, where she holds the David and Ruth Gottesman Chair in English. A nationally recognized speaker on gender and Jewish identity, Ladin has spoken around the country and has been featured on a number of NPR programs, including ""On Being with Krista Tippett."" She lives in New York City.
