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Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey between Genders (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog) by Joy Ladin is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.

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Professor Jay Ladin made headlines around the world when, after years of teaching literature at Yeshiva University, he returned to the Orthodox Jewish campus as a woman—Joy Ladin. In Through the Door of Life, Joy Ladin takes readers inside her transition as she changed genders and, in the process, created a new self. With unsparing honesty and surprising humor, Ladin wrestles with both the practical problems of gender transition and the larger moral, spiritual, and philosophical questions that arise. Ladin recounts her struggle to reconcile the pain of her experience living as the “wrong” gender with the pain of her children in losing the father they love. We eavesdrop on her lifelong conversations with the God whom she sees both as the source of her agony and as her hope for transcending it. We look over her shoulder as she learns to walk and talk as a woman after forty-plus years of walking and talking as a man. We stare with her into the mirror as she asks herself how the new self she is creating will ever become real. Ladin’s poignant memoir takes us from the death of living as the man she knew she wasn’t, to the shattering of family and career that accompanied her transition,

Who reads Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey between Genders (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog)?

Author

Joy Ladin

Publisher

The University of Wisconsin Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780299287306

Category

religious

Subjects

Memoir, Judaism, Science

Rating

4.3 / 5 (90 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14