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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Wow! What a book. A dear colleague lent this to me. It had been sitting on his desk for months and I had been itching to read it. But life got in the way. Last week he chose to lend it to me....it was not a good week for reading this book...I was already overdue on an assignment...I was going through a reasonably stressful time at work....packing up an office after being there for probably far too many years. Despite this, I couldn't put it down. I knew the author of this book before she became a she, if that makes sense. But I only knew her very slightly. Enough to nod to in a corridor. I was from interstate. She was at the time a demi-God. She was a he then. I was wary of him. He seemed surly..impatient with fools. And Lord knows I can be a fool. This book is confronting. This book is brave. This book is astounding. No doubt it will appeal to the prurient taste of some readers. But, to me, its real value lies in reminding us that often the biggest battle we face is with ourselves. And without wishing to sound like a dreadful cliche, never judge a book by its cover. Sometimes I can pick that when a person is lashing out or scary, its because they are hurting or incredibly afraid of something ....often themselves. Josie has been courageously honest in this book. It is such a generous gesture from a trail blazer. No doubt we will look back on this book and her experience in 50 years time and wonder what all the fuss was about. We need people like her to tell it like it is. That we live in a too binary world...yes/no...girl/boy...black/white....good/bad. None of us fits into neat little boxes. On reflection it is bizarre and typical of the cosmic consciousness that I should have read Weinberger's Everything is Miscellaneous in the same week. Yes John, you were right to lend it to me....to quote a particularly poignant passage from the book "What I have learnt is that we don't change until we come to a point where staying as we are hurts more than the prospect of change." Josie, this is a triumphant start to your new life and a clarion call for all of us to be true to ourselves and gentle with each other in the process. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
This is a searing account of the author's physical, spiritual and emotional journey from man to woman. Josie has lived and loved as a man and as a woman. This is the story of her voyage from his days working in desert mining and construction camps through to the struggles with her family and eventual reconciliation with her dying mother. It is the story of his loves and his marriage as a man, of fatherhood, and his passage through the barriers of gender and sex. The story of the shock of discovering her need -- as a woman -- to be with a man. An account, as well, of personal spiritual discovery, The Real Possibility of Joy opens up the mystery of what it means to be human and captures the joy of living one's own, hard-won, personal truth. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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