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Amateur

Amateur

A True Story About What Makes a Man

by Thomas Page McBee
Hardback
Publication Date: 12/09/2018

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An exploration of modern masculinity by the first transgender man to box at Madison Square Garden.

In this ground-breaking new book, Thomas Page McBee, 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 of 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 way forward: a new masculinity, inside the ring and out of it.

A graceful and uncompromising exploration of living, fighting and healing, in Amateur we gain insight into the stereotypes and shifting realities of masculinity today through the eyes of a new man.

'A blazingly wise and beautiful book.' - A L Kennedy

ISBN:
9781786890979
9781786890979
Category:
Memoirs
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
12-09-2018
Publisher:
Canongate Books
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
224
Dimensions (mm):
214x135x24mm
Weight:
0.36kg
Thomas Page McBee

Thomas Page McBee was 'masculinity expert' for Vice and the first trans man ever to box at Madison Square Garden.

His essays and reportage have appeared in the New York Times, Playboy, Glamour and Salon.

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