Trans: A Memoir

London: Verso, 2015. First edition, first printing (full number line). Hardcover. Fine in fine jacket; as new, with two tiny spots to top edge and a wee bit of wear to jacket (one tiny scratch to front). All in all, a new copy. Please refer to photos. Jacket now housed in archival mylar. in fine dust-jacket. Small quarto in black illus jacket; viii, 311 pages; 22 cm. Well-written. "'Six weeks before sex reassignment surgery (SRS), I am obliged to stop taking my hormones. I suddenly feel very differently about my forthcoming operation.' In July 2012, aged thirty, Juliet Jacques underwent sex reassignment surgery--a process she chronicled with unflinching honesty in a serialised national newspaper column. Trans tells of her life to the present moment: a story of growing up, of defining yourself, and of the rapidly changing world of gender politics. Fresh from university, eager to escape a dead-end job, she launches a career as a writer in a publishing culture dominated by London cliques and still figuring out the impact of the Internet. She navigates the treacherous waters of a world where, even in the liberal and feminist media, transgender identities go unacknowledged, misunderstood or worse. Yet through art, film, music, politics and football, Jacques starts to become the person she had only imagined, and begins the process of transition. Interweaving the personal with the political, her memoir is a powerful exploration of debates that comprise trans politics, issues which promise to redefine our understanding of what it means to be alive."--Jacket. / Transgender people -- Biography. Gender transition. Transphobia. Gender identity. Gender Identity Transgenres -- Biographies. Transition de genre. Transphobie. Identité sexuelle. sex role. Transgender people -- Identity. Transgenderism. Family and Relationships. Gender identity. Gender transition. Transgender people. Transphobia. Transitioning (Transgender) Family and Relationships. Jacques, Juliet. Jacques, Juliet. Jacques, Juliet. Genre/Form: Autobiography Autobiographies. Biographies. Transgender biographies. Autobiographies. Autobiographies. Autobiographies.