{"product_id":"all-about-yves-by-yves-rees-9781760879310","title":"All About Yves","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRees provides us with their deep insights into contemporary trans and gender diverse history as it's being made. \u003cem\u003eAll About Yves\u003c\/em\u003e is the book I wish I'd been able to give my mother when I was transitioning. - Sam Elkin, Transgender Victoria Board Member\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWas I always trans, part boy beneath my skin, or was it that I landed in a place where 'girl' was a container so small it could break your bones?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI learn that a ready smile and sympathetic ear are the only props required to impersonate a woman. The performance becomes so familiar I almost forget that it's staged.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat happens when, aged 30, you understand you're transgender?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis was the question that confronted Yves Rees, a historian whose life was upended by gender transition in 2018. Then known as a woman called Anne, Yves was forced to grapple with the sudden knowledge that they were not, in fact, female at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut when you've lived a lie for so long, how do you discover who you really are? And how do you re-learn to live in the world as a different gender?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAll About Yves\u003c\/em\u003e tells their moving journey of re-becoming, at the same time laying bare the messiness of bodies, gender, and identity. It shares the challenges and joys of being transgender in Australia today, and reveals how trans experiences like Yves' can teach all of us about what it means to be human.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A book of great heart and gentle intelligence, and one that will mean a great deal to many people.' - Fiona Wright, author of \u003cem\u003eThe World Was Whole\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46797633487084,"sku":"9781760879310","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/26180043482814.jpg?v=1757161035","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/all-about-yves-by-yves-rees-9781760879310","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}