| I Am Vidya: A Transgender's Journey Contributor(s): Vidya, Living Smile (Author) |
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ISBN: 8129123983 ISBN-13: 9788129123985 Publisher: Rupa Publications India OUR PRICE: $12.34 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Lgbt Studies - Transgender Studies - Biography & Autobiography | Lgbt |
| Physical Information: 0.31" H x 5.06" W x 7.81" (0.33 lbs) 146 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Identities are not mere markers we are known by; they define as well as limit us. They can both confine or release a consciousness. I Am Vidya is the story of one such journey-that of a declaration, of the claiming of an identity. It is an assertion of a consciousness that has suffered the agony of being trapped in a mould it does not belong to, a body it does not identify with. Vidya has lived through all the indignities forced upon a tirunangai, a transgender, by a society which divides and defines itself as men and women in terms of biology alone-from being spurned by her family, to begging on the streets as a social outcast; from donning a woman's clothes, to undergoing excruciating surgery to lose her 'manhood'; from suffering emotional and physical harassment, to arriving at her true identity. A compelling narrative about a woman trapped within a man's body, this is a story of extraordinary courage and perseverance. |