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1 online resource (1 audio file) |
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033000 |
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digital rda |
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audio file rda |
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From an award-winning writer whose work bristles with "hard-won strength, insight, agility, and love" (Maggie Nelson), an exquisite and troubling narrative of masculinity, violence, and society.In this groundbreaking new book, the author, a trans man, trains to fight in a charity match at Madison Square Garden while struggling to untangle the vexed relationship between masculinity and violence. Through his experience boxing--learning to get hit, and to hit back; wrestling with the camaraderie of the gym; confronting the betrayals and strength of his own body--McBee examines the weight of male violence, the pervasiveness of gender stereotypes, and the limitations of conventional masculinity. A wide-ranging exploration of gender in our society, Amateur is ultimately a story of hope, as McBee traces a new way forward, a new kind of masculinity, inside the ring and outside of it. In this graceful, stunning, and uncompromising exploration of living, fighting, and healing, we gain insight into the stereotypes and shifting realities of masculinity today through the eyes of a new man. |
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Downloadable audio file. |
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Read by the author. |
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A transgender man, the first to ever box in Madison Square Garden, explores the role of gender in modern American society and the weight of male violence as he discusses living, fighting, and healing, inside and outside the ring. |
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Requires Boundless App. |
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Men -- Identity.
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Masculinity -- Social aspects.
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Men -- Psychology.
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McBee, Thomas Page.
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Men -- Identity. |
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Men -- Psychology. |
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Audiobooks.
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Downloadable audio books. |
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Audiobooks.
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Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): McBee, Thomas Page. Amateur New York, NY : Simon & Schuster Audio, [2018] 9781508267447 (OCoLC)1047736844 |
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9781508267430 : |
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150826743X : |
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