Description
Adult Human Male, Oliver Radclyffe
$25.00
ISBN: 9798987019979
Fine Softcover with Dust Jacket; 88 pages; 5”x 7.5”
Publication Date: September 19, 2023
“Oliver Radclyffe … has predicted a future in which gender is not just mutable, but trivial. I can’t wait to live in that world, and I love Oliver for forging the path.”
— Janet W. Hardy
Summary
“This is not queer theory. This is my flesh and blood,” writes Oliver Radclyffe in this spirited polemic on trans identity. Presenting his careful logic with lyrical prose, Radclyffe disrupts — intentionally, pointedly, playfully — the current structure of popular debates on gender.
With Adult Human Male, he rejects the academic argot of theoretical constructs and, instead, recenters the trans body as fundamental to a humanist inquiry into identity. Radclyffe posits that the cis perspective — from which nearly all gender discussions begin — is anything but neutral and thus demands both interrogation and expansion so that trans identity is not viewed through a hostile lens.
Adult Human Male marks an important advance in how to understand, discuss, and respect the trans experience.
Author
The only daughter of an upper-class English family, Oliver Radclyffe tried to follow the rules: marrying a suitable man, giving birth to four children, and moving to the Connecticut suburbs. Then, he realized that he was not a heterosexual woman — nor actually a woman at all. Oliver is part of a new wave of transgender writers unafraid to examine the nuances of transition, gender identity, sexual orientation, feminist allegiance, social class, and family history. His work has appeared in The New York Times and Electric Literature.
Reviews
“Oliver Radclyffe … has predicted a future in which gender is not just mutable, but trivial. I can’t wait to live in that world, and I love Oliver for forging the path.”
Janet W. Hardy
“Adult Human Male is an excoriating response to … the ‘hostile cis perspective.’ After [this book], we cannot be neutral. [Radclyffe] writes with deft prose and measured fury.”
Alexander Cheves
” … a moment of literary calm amid the wild seas of our current political and cultural landscape.”
Sophia Anfinn Tonnessen
