The Gender Games
The Problem With Men and Women, From Someone Who Has Been Both
$23.83
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
13 February 2018
Summary
‘It’s a boy!’ or ‘It’s a girl!’ are the first words almost all of us hear when we enter the world. Before our names, before we have likes and dislikes - before we, or anyone else, has any idea who we are. And two years ago, as Juno Dawson went to tell her mother she was (and actually, always had been) a woman, she started to realise just how wrong we’ve been getting it.
Gender isn’t just screwing over trans people, it’s messing with everyone. From little girls who think they can’t be …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473648609 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1473648602 |
| Author: | Juno Dawson |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 13 February 2018 |
| Weight: | 260g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 28mm |
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This memoir … got me underlining, and texting friends, frequently.– Stephanie Burt , TLS
One of the bravest, freshest voices - Observer
This memoir … got me underlining, and texting friends, frequently. - TLSPart memoir, part manifesto, The Gender Games is filled with the type of funny, thoughtful and honest writing that has made Dawson a multi-award winning YA author…Frank, witty, and educational’ - StylistThis book is incredible, I loved it so much - Emma Gannon, CTRL ALT DELETE podcastA saucy, sassy, sweary look at gender, and how it trips and entraps us. - Irish ExaminerAbout The Author
Juno Dawson
JUNO DAWSON is the multi-award-winning author of dark teen thrillers. Her first non-fiction book, BEING A BOY, tackled puberty, sex and relationships in a frank and funny fashion, and a follow-up for young LGBT people, THIS BOOK IS GAY, came out in 2014. Juno is a regular contributor to Attitude Magazine, GT and the Guardian and has contributed to news items concerning sexuality, identity, literature and education on BBC Woman’s Hour, Front Row, This Morning and Newsnight. She writes full time and lives in Brighton.
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