Becoming Eve - My Journey from Ultra-orthodox Rabbi to Transgender Woman

Abby Chava 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.

Product details

• Authors: Abby Stein, Abby Chava Stein
• Publisher: Seal press feminist publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9781580059169
• ISBN: 978-1-58005-916-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 245 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Jewish, RELIGION / Judaism / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Gender studies, gender groups