Gender Outlaw

Kate Bornstein is a performance artist, actress and writer. She has appeared on Donahue, CNBC'S RealPersonal, and other television talk shows. Her performances have drawn artistic praise from San Francisco to New York. Her most recent performance piece is The Opposite Gender is. . .Neither!.

• Part One FIRST THINGS FIRST; Part Two SORTING SEEDS; Part Three CLAIMING POWER; Part Four A GENDER INTERROGATORY; Part Five CREATING A THIRD SPACE; Part Six HIDDEN: A GENDER, a play in two acts; Part Seven THE PUNCHLINE

"Gender Outlaw is an eye-opening book, combining the emotional force of a coming-of-age story with a savvy cultural critique." -- Out"[Kate Borstein] offers us an abundance of questions--thoughtful, disarming, revelatory questions. Gender Outlaw is an invitation to dialogue, and it's a conversation well worth having." -- Ms."Gender Outlaw is a radical document. . ." -- The Nation"a pastiche of oddments--dreams and memories, influences and quotations, fresh ideas and numerous received wisdoms. . ." -- Richard McCann, author of Ghost Letters"In an age of often hostilely expressed gender politics, Ms. Bornstein gently leads audiences through her own psychic labyrinth without antagonism. She is sweet, sincere, lucid and sometimes as corny as Kansas in August. She really should have her own television show." -- New York Times"...it is a pastiche of oddments--dreams and memories, influences and quotations, fresh ideas and numerous received wisdoms.." -- The Nation"To help us rise above the Geraldo mentality of genital fixation, Bornstein has avoided writing a traditional, tell-all autobiography. Instead, her book is a stream-of consciousness essay designed to make us think for ourselves." -- The Boston Phoenix"Bornstein's revolutionary ideas about gender and sexuality are authentic precisely because they come from one who's been there. . .By the time readers finish Gender Outlaw, they may indeed wonder why we live in aworld with only two genders, let alone why we place somuch importance one which one someone happens to be." --San Francisco Bay Guardian