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A feminist film critic’s thoughtful, outspoken memoir about transgender and family
On a visit to New York, the brother of well-known film critic Molly Haskell dropped a bombshell: Nearing age sixty, and married, he had decided to become a woman. In the vein of Jan Morris’s classic Conundrum and Jennifer Finney Boylan's She's Not There, a transgender memoir, Haskell’s My Brother My Sister gracefully explores a delicate subject, this time from the perspective of a family member.
Haskell chronicles her brother Chevey’s transformation through a series of psychological evaluations, grueling surgeries, drug regimens, and comportment and fashion lessons as he becomes Ellen. Despite Haskell’s liberal views on gender roles, she was dumbfounded by her brother’s decision. With candor and compassion, she charts not only her brother’s journey to becoming her sister, but also her own path from shock, confusion, embarrassment, and devastation to acceptance, empathy, and love.
Haskell widens the lens on her brother’s story to include scientific and psychoanalytic views. In an honest, informed voice, she has revealed the controversial world of gender reassignment and transsexuals from both a personal and a social perspective in this frank and moving memoir.
- Sales Rank: #669361 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-09-05
- Released on: 2013-09-05
- Format: Kindle eBook
From Booklist
Well-known feminist film critic Haskell calls this a story of a transformation, which is accurate in a way, but on another level this is a story about emigration. Indeed, she refers to her sixtysomething brother Chevvy as a gender migrant after he tells her of his decision to leave his gender designation behind and travel through personally uncharted territory to become a woman. The decision meant he had to forsake not just his male organs via surgery but also all the familiar trappings and language of masculinity, to say nothing of his wife of two decades. And just as the family of any migrant must adapt to the idea of him in a new place, with a new aspect and language, Haskell had to either accept or reject Chevvy’s sexual relocation, as it were. For the liberal-minded feminist, the adjustment wasn’t as easy as one might expect. Because if Chevvy’s course was uncharted, hers felt like leaping into a black hole. Haskell eloquently chronicles the emotional torrent both siblings suffered as brother became sister. --Donna Chavez
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Praise for MY BROTHER MY SISTER
“Molly Haskell has written a bracingly candid book about the mystery of sexual identity and the often indirect path we take to claiming it. This is a riveting account of the passion and tenacity it takes to go up against the constrictions and limitations society imposes on our deepest dreams of self.”—Daphne Merkin, author of Dreaming of Hitler and Enchantment
“In this gripping memoir, the author's feelings are parsed with a precision and candor that bring universal resonance to its seemingly singular subject. The wisdom and compassion that shine through on every page are as necessary as they are rare.”—Phillip Lopate, author To Show and to Tell
“Life’s losses and transitions – in this case, sex changes and death – are heartbreaking and enigmatic, yet Haskell confronts them honestly with tremendous courage, intelligence and love. A beautiful book.”—Lily Tuck, National Book Award-winning author of The News from Paraguay
“Beautiful and pitch perfect. A wonderfully personal story about family and relationships and secrets and evolution and how mysterious we remain even to ourselves and our closest relatives.”—A. M. Homes, Women’s Prize-winning author of May We Be Forgiven
“A remarkable and indispensable book. In My Brother My Sister, Haskell documents her sibling's amazing journey of transformation from male to female – but it's not about sex, it's about identity – about the price of belonging. Above all this is an achingly personal story. It takes courage for brother Chevey to become sister Ellen and for Haskell to confront her doubts. It also takes a great deal of love.”—Patricia Bosworth, author of Jane Fonda: The Private Life of a Public Woman
"As the conversation surrounding...transgender continues, this work makes a significant contribution to its literature."—Publishers Weekly
“Haskell eloquently chronicles the emotional torrent [for] both siblings.”—Booklist
“With candor and sly humor, [Haskell] questions her ideas about womanhood and considers the relationship between gender and identity….A discerning, vital memoir.”—Kirkus
“A sensitive, funny, difficult, and insightful book.”—New York Journal of Books
About the Author
Molly Haskell is a nationally recognized film critic and the author of three books of film criticism. She has contributed to many publications, including The New York Times, Esquire, The Nation, and Vogue. She lives in New York City.
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40 of 49 people found the following review helpful.
Selective Empathy
By Ironclad Iconoclast
While I commend the author for writing this memoir, I came across a paragraph that disturbed me and I felt the need to say my piece. Her views of Brandon Teena, a female to male transsexual who was brutally raped and murdered by two men in rural Nebraska, are nothing short of disgraceful. After watching Boys Don't Cry, a film based on Brandon's life, she claims she "hated the duplicity" of his lifestyle and that he "invited the violence". How? She explains her view that the perpetrators manhood was taunted and Brandon pulled the wool over their eyes. How was their manhood taunted exactly? Brandon was their buddy who never acted with malicious intent towards them. And Brandon pulled the wool over their eyes, how? By not broadcasting his transition in a conservative town twenty years ago where gays and transgendered individuals were not only ostracized, but murdered, as he was? How can Haskell accept her sister Ellen with an open heart and mind and completely demean another individual from the same community, who chose to live in accordance with his gender identity? It is an ugly paradox, and a prime example of selective empathy.
What is most disturbing to me is that Haskell seems to be justifying the murderer's atrocious acts towards a human being. She describes them as being "uptight". Well, that takes the cake when it comes to understatements. Not only this, but Haskell disregards the use of male pronouns in reference to Brandon, ultimately discounting who he felt he was. Profound ignorance, insensitivity, and stupidity from someone I expected much more from. I put the book down after reading this terrible passage.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Wonderful for anyone to read, but especially me!
By Jean Vertner
Molly Haskell is amazing, and covers every aspect of the transgender, along with a central theme of deep caring for her brother/sister and possible fear of losing him. Amazingly, I, too, have a my brother/my sister, who is also 6 feet tall w/ blue eyes, went to St. Christopher's (for a while; he didn't quite fit in), left two wives to be a woman; I mean really!!!, has one son, always fixes my computer, and several other likenesses to Ellen; we are also from Richmond, VA and both live here. I wish everyone would read the Book, I guess mainly to know that transgendering is a MUST-DO, and the longer the person goes without making the change surgically and all, the more frustrated they become. Teresa (nee Thomas) knew when he was 4 years old that he wanted to be a girl. I don't believe he ever thought he could be back in 1947, but had always grappled with it. She is deliriously happy now. I wish Ellen the best with her continued popularity (we have some mutual friends) and send my condolences to Molly (with So much personality!) upon the sad loss of her beloved husband; and commend her and Ellen for such a splendid and informative
Book and for the courage of tackling every step of such a sensitive, controversial and long-hushed human condition.... BRAVO!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Unusual perspective on an unusual transition
By Tiresias
Most accounts of gender transitions are written by the transitioner. Instead, here we have an unflinchingly honest account written by her sister, with all her misgivings and ambivalent feelings about the change. Moreover, this is the story of a fairly late transition, not the more usual one in early middle age or youth. The interactions with other family members and friends are also described in some depth, including those who could not handle the change at all. Nor does this account end, as so many do, with the completed transition, but rather goes into the seven years which have followed. Moving, and revealing, without the politically correct "pink fog" which turns many such accounts into fantasies or propaganda.
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