{"product_id":"the-gender-frontier-mariette-pathy-allen","title":"The Gender Frontier: Mariette Pathy Allen","description":"\u003cp\u003eMariette Pathy Allen documents the lives of extraordinary individuals  their partners  families and friends. Through photographs and short texts  the reader is offered an intimate connection to the books subjects and -insight into how their own lives are affected by gender. As Allen says: \"Trans-gendered people offer the rest of us a potentially exhilarating -vision of fluidity  freed from traditional roles or definitions. They make vivid the questions: What is the essence of humanness beyond masculinity or femininity?\" Framed by the emerging transgender political movement  The Gender Frontier is one of the first book to include both female-to-males and male-to-females  as well as queer youth. One of her subjects  Robert Eads  a female-to-male who died of ovarian cancer  was also prominently featured in the award-winning film Southern Comfort\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44968021327925,"sku":"ByrdShop_3936636044","price":91.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9783936636048.jpg?v=1770644373","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-gender-frontier-mariette-pathy-allen","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}