This sensitive and accurate account gives an account of the life of a young person who comes into conflict with her biologically masculine identity at an early age. She describes in detail the desperate attempts to adapt, to submit to the gender role imposed on her, her failure, and the radical step into a new identity as a woman.
Again and again, the understanding of roles and the norms of the sexes are reflected, and the subjective experience takes a position on the socialization and self-understanding of both men and women. After all, it is a matter of countering society's demands against the individual with the right of the individual to self-determination.
Renate Anders (pseudonym), born in 1941; 1962–64 military service, then teacher training; from 1967 teaching degree; 1974–76 additional studies in special education; 1978 »border crossing«, since then a teacher at a special school in northern Germany.
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