Description
| Product ID: | 9781580059169 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Becoming Eve |
| Subtitle: | My Journey from Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi to Transgender Woman |
| Authors: | Author: Abby Stein |
| Page Count: | 272 |
| Subjects: | Memoirs, Memoirs, Judaism, Religious aspects of sexuality, gender and relationships, Gender studies, gender groups, Judaism: worship, rites & ceremonies, Religious aspects of sexuality, gender & relationships, Gender studies, gender groups |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The powerful coming-out story of an ultra-Orthodox child who became a woman and a voice for gender freedom Abby Chava 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Seal Press |
| Publisher Name: | Seal Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-11-28 |