Once Out Of Nature Paperback by Joy Ladin

Product Details

• Publisher: Persea Books (2024-09-10)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 184 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780892555864
• Item Weight: 238.14 grams
• Dimensions: 8.25 x 5.4 x 0.55 cm

Eleven essays on gender written between 2008 and 2021 by one of our leading voices on trans poetics and theology

This compassionate, constructive volume by renowned author Joy Ladin collects eleven essays written between 2008, on the cusp of what Time called America's “transgender tipping point,” and 2021, as anti-trans laws began metastasizing around America. Dr. Ladin, the first openly transgender employee of an Orthodox Jewish institution (Yeshiva University), a nationally known speaker on transgender identities and issues, and founding figure in trans poetry and trans theology, has lived through and contributed to gender's bitterly debated and still unfolding transformation. Drawing on her experiences as a trans parent, spouse, teacher, and author, she writes honestly and insightfully about gender, exploring its intersections with feminisms, psychotherapy, divinity, ontology, and even the poems of Emily Dickinson. Written for any curious reader, these essays teach us about who we are, who we can be, and what it means to be human.

About the Author

Joy Ladin is the author of many poetry collections, including The Future Is Trying to Tell Us Something: New and Selected Poems (Sheep Meadow Press, 2017). She has also published a memoir, Through the Door of Life: a Jewish Journey Between Genders (2012); a critical study, Soldering the Abyss: Emily Dickinson and Modern American Poetry (2010); and a work of creative non-fiction, The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective (2018). She is a professor at Yeshiva University, where she holds the David and Ruth Gottesman Chair in English. A nationally recognized speaker on gender and Jewish identity, Ladin has spoken around the country and has been featured on a number of NPR programs, including "On Being with Krista Tippett." She lives in New York City.