{"product_id":"9780735235939","title":"I'm Afraid of Men","description":"\u003cp class=\"a-size-large a-spacing-none\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNamed a Best Book by:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Globe and Mail,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eIndigo,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eOut Magazine,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eAudible, CBC, Apple,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire, Kirkus Reviews,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eBrooklyn Public Library, Writers’ Trust of Canada,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eAutostraddle, Bitch,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eand\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eBookRiot.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFinalist for the 2019 Lambda Literary Award, Transgender Nonfiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNominated for the 2019 Forest of Reading Evergreen Award\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2018  Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design – Prose Non-Fiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Cultural rocket fuel.\" --\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Emotional and painful but also layered with humour,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eI'm Afraid of Men\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewill widen your lens on gender and challenge you to do better. This challenge is a necessary one--one we must all take up. It is a gift to dive into Vivek's heart and mind.\" --Rupi Kaur, bestselling author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Sun and Her Flowers\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eMilk and Honey\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA trans artist explores how masculinity was imposed on her as a boy and continues to haunt her as a girl--and how we might reimagine gender for the twenty-first century.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVivek Shraya has reason to be afraid. Throughout her life she's endured acts of cruelty and aggression for being too feminine as a boy and not feminine enough as a girl. In order to survive childhood, she had to learn to convincingly perform masculinity. As an adult, she makes daily compromises to steel herself against everything from verbal attacks to heartbreak.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow, with raw honesty, Shraya delivers an important record of the cumulative damage caused by misogyny, homophobia, and transphobia, releasing trauma from a body that has always refused to assimilate. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eI'm Afraid of Men\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a journey from camouflage to a riot of colour and a blueprint for how we might cherish all that makes us different and conquer all that makes us afraid.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52224174391527,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0724\/3680\/9959\/files\/61QsFkfmpML._SY342.jpg?v=1781811702","url":"https:\/\/jfbooks.org\/zh-hans\/products\/9780735235939","provider":"JF Books | 季風書園","version":"1.0","type":"link"}