Becoming Eve

Name: Becoming Eve
Brand: Basic Books
SKU: 9781580059169-V
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By Abby Stein

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The powerful coming-of-age story of an ultra-Orthodox child who was born to become a rabbinic leader and instead became a woman Abby Stein was raised in a Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn, isolated in a culture that lives according to the laws and practices of eighteenth-century Eastern Europe, speaking only Yiddish and Hebrew and shunning modern life. Stein was born as the first son in a dynastic rabbinical family, poised to become a leader of the next generation of Hasidic Jews. But Abby felt certain at a young age that she was a girl. She suppressed her desire for a new body while looking for answers wherever she could find them, from forbidden religious texts to smuggled secular examinations of faith. Finally, she orchestrated a personal exodus from ultra-Orthodox manhood to mainstream femininity-a radical choice that forced her to leave her home, her family, her way of life. Powerful in the truths it reveals about biology, culture, faith, and identity, Becoming Eve poses the enduring question: How far will you go to become the person you were meant to be?

Product details

Edition:: 1
Languages:: Original: English
Number of Pages:: 272
Publisher:: Basic Books
Publication Date:: 2019-11-12
ISBN / EAN:: 9781580059169
Weight:: 467 g
Dimensions:: 16/25/3 cm
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]

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