The Gender Games by Juno Dawson - ISBN: 9781473648609
Paperback
Gender’s messing with everyone: a powerful manifesto for being yourself.

The Gender Games

The Problem With Men and Women, From Someone Who Has Been Both

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  • Paperback

    368 pages

  • Release Date

    13 February 2018

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Summary

‘It’s a boy!’ or ‘It’s a girl!’ are the first words almost all of us hear when we enter the world. Before our names, before we have likes and dislikes - before we, or anyone else, has any idea who we are. And two years ago, as Juno Dawson went to tell her mother she was (and actually, always had been) a woman, she started to realise just how wrong we’ve been getting it.

Gender isn’t just screwing over trans people, it’s messing with everyone. From little girls who think they can’t be …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781473648609
ISBN-10:1473648602
Author:Juno Dawson
Publisher:John Murray Press
Imprint:John Murray Publishers Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:368
Release Date:13 February 2018
Weight:260g
Dimensions:198mm x 130mm x 28mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

This memoir … got me underlining, and texting friends, frequently.– Stephanie Burt , TLS

One of the bravest, freshest voices - Observer

This memoir … got me underlining, and texting friends, frequently. - TLS

Part memoir, part manifesto, The Gender Games is filled with the type of funny, thoughtful and honest writing that has made Dawson a multi-award winning YA author…Frank, witty, and educational’ - Stylist

This book is incredible, I loved it so much - Emma Gannon, CTRL ALT DELETE podcast

A saucy, sassy, sweary look at gender, and how it trips and entraps us. - Irish Examiner

About The Author

Juno Dawson

JUNO DAWSON is the multi-award-winning author of dark teen thrillers. Her first non-fiction book, BEING A BOY, tackled puberty, sex and relationships in a frank and funny fashion, and a follow-up for young LGBT people, THIS BOOK IS GAY, came out in 2014. Juno is a regular contributor to Attitude Magazine, GT and the Guardian and has contributed to news items concerning sexuality, identity, literature and education on BBC Woman’s Hour, Front Row, This Morning and Newsnight. She writes full time and lives in Brighton.

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