[Lavalibrary] Julia Serano Event @ the Wooden Shoe - Friday Aug. 17th 7pm

[Kristin M Campbell]

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Dear Friends of the Wooden Shoe,

We'd love you to join us at Wooden Shoe Books for an amazing event with JULIA SERANO while she discusses and reads from her first full-
length book, "Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Feminity." 

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Friday, August 17th @ 7pm
Wooden Shoe Books
508 S. 5th Street (between South st. and Lombard st.)
Philadelphia 
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A provocative manifesto, "Whipping Girl" is a gripping, no holds barred account that debunks popular misconceptions about transsexuality, 
while exposing the depth of the cultural belief that femininity is frivolous, weak, and passive. Julia Serano, a transsexual woman, shares her 
experiences pre- and post-transition, revealing at every turn the ways in which fear, contempt, and dismissiveness toward femininity shape 
our societal attitudes toward trans women, as well as gender and sexuality as a whole.

“...Julia Serano offers a perspective sorely needed, but up until now rarely heard: a transfeminine critique of both feminist and mainstream 
understandings of gender...[She] brings unique insights to discussions of sexism and misogyny. In Whipping Girl, she weaves theoretical 
arguments through her compelling essays and manifestos in an attempt to bridge the gap between biological and social perspectives on 
gender, and calls our attention to the need for empowering femininity itself. In the process, she takes feminist and queer communities to task 
for dismissing male-to-female transsexuals while celebrating their counterparts on the female-to-male spectrum.”  --Bitch Magazine


For more information visit Julia Serano's website at http://www.juliaserano.com/whippinggirl.html


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