Amateur

Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Longlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize In this groundbreaking new book, Thomas Page McBee, a trans man, trains to fight in a charity match at Madison Square Garden while struggling to untangle the vexed relationship between masculinity and violence. Through his experience of boxing - learning to get hit, and to hit back; wrestling with the camaraderie of the gym; confronting the betrayals and strength of his own body - McBee examines the weight of male violence, the pervasiveness of gender stereotypes and the limitations of conventional masculinity. A wide-ranging exploration of gender in our society, Amateur is ultimately a story of hope, as McBee traces a way forward: a new masculinity, inside the ring and out of it. A graceful and uncompromising exploration of living, fighting and healing, in Amateur we gain insight into the stereotypes and shifting realities of masculinity today through the eyes of a new man.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Page Mcbee, McBee Thomas Page
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9781786891006
• ISBN: 978-1-78689-100-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 14 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Guides > Health; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SPORTS & RECREATION / Boxing, Boxing, Gender Studies: Men, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs