Book
Becoming Eve : my journey from ultra-Orthodox rabbi to transgender woman
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York : Seal Press, 2019.
Physical Description
xxii, 244 pages ; 24 cm
Summary
"Abby Stein was raised in a Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn, profoundly isolated in a culture that lives according to the laws and practices of an eighteenth-century Eastern European enclave, speaking only Yiddish and Hebrew and shunning modern life. Stein was born as the first son in a rabbinical dynastic family, poised to become a leader of the next generation of Hasidic Jews. But Stein felt certain at a young age that she was a girl. Without access to TV or the internet, and never taught English, 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 into mainstream femininity--a radical choice that forced her to leave her home, her family, and her way of life"--
Contents
- Introduction: Birth of an empire
- Birth of a child
- A dollhouse
- A haircut
- According to His will
- On the playground
- At the edge of manhood
- Seeing demons
- Signs and signals
- Holy obligations
- Teachings of our fathers
- A new school
- Heavenly bodies
- Welcome to the Catskill Mountains
- Matchmaking
- Tingling feelings
- Audience with the rebbe
- High on mysticism
- Engaged
- Graphic studies
- A wedding in a blizzard
- Another child
- The done thing
- Wireless connections.