{"product_id":"what-becomes-you-paperback","title":"What Becomes You - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAaron Raz Link\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eHilda Raz\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Being a man, like being a woman, is something you have to learn,\" Aaron Raz Link remarks. Few would know this better than the coauthor of \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat Becomes You\u003c\/em\u003e, who began life as a girl named Sarah and twenty-nine years later began life anew as a gay man. Turning from female to male and from teaching scientist to theatre performer, Link documents the extraordinary medical, social, legal, and personal process involved in a complete identity change. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Hilda Raz, a well-known feminist writer and teacher, observes the process as both an \"astonished\" parent and as a professor who has studied gender issues. All these perspectives come into play in this collaborative memoir, which travels between women's experience and men's lives, explores the art and science of changing sex, maps uncharted family values, and journeys through a world transformed by surgery, hormones, love, and . . . clown school. Combining personal experience and critical analysis, the book is an unusual--and unusually fascinating--reflection on gender, sex, and the art of living. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAaron Raz Link\u003c\/strong\u003e has been a writing professor, a science educator for major museums, and a curriculum developer and lead instructor for a National Institutes of Health initiative program supporting diversity in science and medicine. He has also been a day laborer, a puppeteer, and the artistic director of Gorilla Theater, a company of performers from the streets. \u003cstrong\u003eHilda Raz\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author or editor of fourteen books, including her most recent, \u003cem\u003eLetter from a Place I've Never Been: New and Collected Poems, 1986-2020\u003c\/em\u003e (Nebraska, 2021). She is the poetry editor for the University of New Mexico Press, \u003cem\u003eABQ (in)Print\u003c\/em\u003e, and Bosque Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAaron Raz Link\u003c\/b\u003e has been a writing professor, a science educator for major museums, and a curriculum developer and lead instructor for a National Institutes of Health initiative program supporting diversity in science and medicine. He has also been a day laborer, a puppeteer, and the artistic director of Gorilla Theater, a company of performers from the streets. \u003cb\u003eHilda Raz\u003c\/b\u003e is the author or editor of fourteen books, including her most recent, \u003ci\u003eLetter from a Place I've Never Been: New and Collected Poems, 1986-2020\u003c\/i\u003e (Nebraska, 2021). She is editor of the Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series at the University of New Mexico Press and poetry editor for \u003ci\u003eABQ (in)Print\u003c\/i\u003e and Bosque Press. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 324\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.72 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42101213888647,"sku":"9781496227843","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/6e131ded474d36b4196b146c0f75f276.webp?v=1732392109","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/what-becomes-you-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}