![]() I think perhaps she is trying to encourage us to buck societal pressure and become "gender outlaws". ![]() She also mentions an "ideal female" gender, but never says how it fits in exactly. for one thing, the "ideal gender" that society wants us to achieve is the top of the pyramid, which is rich white male. In the exercises in the book, Kate is asking about gender as she defines it. She has constructed a gender pyramid as shown below: However Kate considers age, race, class and other things to be part of gender identity. Sources I came across before Kate's book defined around 10-20 or so gender identities, most of them bearing some relation to the traditional male/female or in-between. In particular, I found Kate's definition of gender to be different from anything I have heard before. ![]() I recently finished "My Gender Workbook" by Kate Bornstein. ![]()
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