Becoming Eve : my journey from ultra-Orthodox rabbi to transgender woman / Abby Stein.
| Author/creator |
Stein, Abby, 1991- author. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | New York : Seal Press, 2019. |
| Copyright Notice | ©2019 |
| Description | xxii, 244 pages ; 25 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Contents | Introduction: birth of an empire -- Birth of a child -- A dollhouse -- A haircut -- According to His will -- On the playground -- At the edge of manhood -- Seeing demons -- Signs and signals -- Holy obligations -- Teachings of our fathers -- A new school -- Heavenly bodies -- Welcome to the Catskill Mountains -- Matchmaking -- Tingling feelings -- Audience with the rebbe -- High on mysticism -- Engaged -- Graphic studies -- A wedding in a blizzard -- Another child -- The done thing -- Wireless connections. |
| Abstract | "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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Stein, Abby, 1991- Becoming Eve. First edition. New York : Seal Press, [2019] 9781580059176 |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| Genre/form | Autobiographies. |
| LCCN | 2019016332 |
| ISBN | 9781580059169 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 1580059163 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| Standard identifier# | 40029601389 |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Joyner | General Stacks | BM729 .T65 S74 2019 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |