Thomas Page McBee has 3 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 2 narrators, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 12 ratings. The most-rated is Amateur.
Amateur
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One of The Times UK’s Best Memoirs of 2018, BuzzFeed’s Best Nonfiction of 2018, Autostraddle’s Best LGBT Books of 2018, Book Riot’s Best Queer Books of 2018, and 52 Insight’s Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2018 From an award-winning writer whose work bristles with "hard-won strength, insight, agility, and love" (Maggie Nelson), an exquisite and troubling narrative of masculinity, violence, and society. In this groundbreaking new book, the author, 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 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 new way forward, a new kind of masculinity, inside the ring and outside of it. In this graceful, stunning, and uncompromising exploration of living, fighting, and healing, we gain insight into the stereotypes and shifting realities of masculinity today through the eyes of a new man.
©2018 Thomas Page McBee (P)2018 Simon & Schuster
Man Alive
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Winner - Best Transgender Nonfiction - 2015 Lambda Literary Awards Best Books of 2014 - Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2014 - NPR Books Best Nonficton Books of 2014 - Kirkus Reviews 10 Best Transgender Nonfiction Books - Advocate What does it really mean to be a man? In Man Alive, Thomas Page McBee attempts to answer that question by focusing on two of the men who most impacted his life - one, his otherwise ordinary father who abused him as a child, and the other, a mugger who almost killed him. Standing at the brink of the life-changing decision to transition from female to male, McBee seeks to understand these examples of flawed manhood and tells us how a brush with violence sent him on the quest to untangle a sinister past and freed him to become the man he was meant to be. Man Alive engages an extraordinary personal story to tell a universal one - how we all struggle to create ourselves and how this struggle often requires risks. Far from a transgender transition tell-all, Man Alive grapples with the larger questions of legacy and forgiveness, love and violence, agency and invisibility. About the author: Thomas Page McBee was the "masculinity expert" for VICE and writes the columns "Self-Made Man" for The Rumpus and "The American Man" for Pacific Standard. His essays and reportage have appeared in The New York Times, TheAtlantic.com, Salon, and BuzzFeed, where he was a regular contributor on gender issues. He lives in New York City, where he works as the editor of special projects at Quartz, and is currently at work on a book about modern American masculinity.
©2014 Thomas Page McBee (P)2017 Audible, Inc.
Un hombre de verdad
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Thomas Page McBee fue el primer boxeador transexual en combatir en el Madison Square Garden, pero este audiolibro no va de eso. McBee nació con cuerpo de mujer, siempre se supo hombre, se operó a los 30 años y entendió que el mundo no volvería a ser igual. Porque cambiar de género lo cambia todo. Y de eso sí que trata este audiolibro. Un hombre de verdad es el relato en primerísima persona de esa transición, un testimonio lírico sobre qué significa ser hombre en el mundo actual. Cuando McBee decidió inscribirse en un gimnasio de boxeo para entender la masculinidad a partir de la violencia, se reconoció como amateur ante ese deporte y ante las preguntas más elementales sobre su propia identidad. La historia de McBee puede escucharse como un reportaje intimista sobre el acoso, el miedo, el rechazo y la aceptación. Pero sobre todo como una defensa de la fragilidad frente a los estereotipos omnipresentes del machito desfasado, con la certeza de que dentro y fuera del ring esta lucha es una sola. La suya, la tuya, la nuestra. "En una época en la que la identidad se ha fragmentado y fraccionado tanto, la empatía de McBee con los hombres es algo refrescante, pero es su determinación por hacerse responsable de su situación lo que resulta más radical." (The Guardian) "La exploración lírica y dolorosa de McBee sobre la pérdida y la madurez ofrece un antídoto esperanzador para las formas más tóxicas de la masculinidad." (Publishers Weekly) Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish/
©2018 Thomas Page McBee (P)2019 Editorial Planeta, S. A.