Becoming Eve: My Journey from Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi to Transgender Woman
Abby Stein
"Abby Stein was raised in a Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn, profoundly isolated in a culture that lives according to the laws and practices of an eighteenth-century Eastern European enclave, speaking only Yiddish and Hebrew and shunning modern life. Stein was born as the first son in a rabbinical dynastic family, poised to become a leader of the next generation of Hasidic Jews. But Stein felt certain at a young age that she was a girl. Without access to TV or the internet, and never taught English, she suppressed her desire for a new body while looking for answers wherever she could find them, from forbidden religious texts to smuggled secular examinations of faith. Finally, she orchestrated a personal exodus from ultra-Orthodox manhood into mainstream femininity--a radical choice that forced her to leave her home, her family, and her way of life"--
Година:
2019
Издателство:
Seal Press (CA)
Език:
english
ISBN 13:
9781580059169
ISBN:
2019019987
Файл:
EPUB, 278 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2019