My son wears heels : one mom's journey from clueless to kickass /
By: Tarney, Julie [author.].
Contributor(s): Ehrensaft, Diane [writer of foreword.].
Publisher: Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, 2016Description: xxi, 240 pages : ill., plates ; 26 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9780299310608; 9780299310608; 0299310604.Subject(s): Tarney, Julie | Mother and child -- Biography | Parents of sexual minority youth -- Biography | Transgender children -- Biography | Mothers -- BiographyDDC classification: 306.768083 TARItem type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 306.768083 TAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 0063194 |
Includes bibliographical references (page 215).
How do you know I'm a boy? -- The toilet paper bride -- The dress-up box -- Out of the closet -- Not like other boys -- Four bullies suspended -- From blue wig to Hedwig -- Harry decides -- The pain in Spain -- The graduation stilettos -- The glass half full -- Epilogue: The night Jesus wore lace.
When Julie Tarney's only child Harry was two years old, he told her, 'Inside my head I'm a girl'. It was 1992. Lacking a positive role model of her own, and fearful of the negative stereotype of an overbearing Jewish mother, Julie embarked on an unexpected parenting path as Harry grew up to be a confident and happily nonconformist adult. Despite some stumbles, Julie learned that her job was to let her child be his authentic self.