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As a Woman: What I Learned about Power, Sex, and the Patriarchy After I Transitioned

As a Woman: What I Learned about Power, Sex, and the Patriarchy After I Transitioned

Williams, Paula Stone

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Publisher Price: $19.00

ISBN10: 1982153350
ISBN13: 9781982153359
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: Mar 8 2022
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
This moving and unforgettable memoir of a transgender pastor's transition from male to female is an audacious, gripping, and profoundly real journey that speaks to the mind, heart, and soul (Joshua J. Dickson, director of Faith Based Initiatives, Biden Campaign)--perfect for fans of Redefining Realness and There Is Room for You.As a father of three, married to a wonderful woman, and holding several prominent jobs within the Christian community, Dr. Paula Stone Williams made the life-changing decision to physically transition from male to female at the age of sixty. Almost instantly, her power and influence in the evangelical world disappeared and her family had to grapple with intense feelings of loss and confusion. Feeling utterly alone after being expelled from the evangelical churches she had once spearheaded, Paula struggled to create a new safe space for herself where she could reconcile her faith, her identity, and her desire to be a leader. Much to her surprise, the key to her new career as a woman came with a deeper awareness of the inequities she had overlooked before her transition. Where her opinions were once celebrated and amplified, now she found herself sidelined and ignored. New questions emerged. Why are women's opinions devalued in favor of men's? Why does love and intimacy feel so different? And, was it possible to find a new spirituality in her own image? In As a Woman, Paula's critical questions about gender, personhood, and place are relevant to anyone. Her writing insightfully reveals aspects of our gender socialization and culture that often go unexamined, but that need to be talked about, challenged, and changed (Soraya Chemaly, author of Rage Becomes Her) in order to fully understand what it means to be male, female, and simply, human.

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