Labor of Love: The Story of One Man's Extraordinary Pregnancy [NOOK Book]

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Overview

Thomas Beatie electrified the world in April 2008 with his announcement that he was seven months pregnant and due to give birth in July. The news made headlines across the globe, but it’s only one chapter in a fascinating saga. Labor of Love reveals Beatie’s unique life experiences: his less-than-idyllic childhood in Hawaii, his feelings of being a young man trapped in the body of a woman, his fight to conceive a child, and the obstacles surrounding the delivery. This astonishing narrative permits an intimate look at a family that refuses to let other people’s definitions of family deter them from creating one on their own terms. Labor of Love is much more than the story of a unique pregnancy and birth — it’s a beautiful
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Overview

Thomas Beatie electrified the world in April 2008 with his announcement that he was seven months pregnant and due to give birth in July. The news made headlines across the globe, but it’s only one chapter in a fascinating saga. Labor of Love reveals Beatie’s unique life experiences: his less-than-idyllic childhood in Hawaii, his feelings of being a young man trapped in the body of a woman, his fight to conceive a child, and the obstacles surrounding the delivery. This astonishing narrative permits an intimate look at a family that refuses to let other people’s definitions of family deter them from creating one on their own terms. Labor of Love is much more than the story of a unique pregnancy and birth — it’s a beautiful and controversial love story about going against the tide, a powerful statement about the evolution of family and identity in the new millennium.

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Best known as the world's first pregnant man, transgendered father and husband Beatie recounts, in touching detail, his difficult path to the 2007-08 pregnancy that briefly captured the world's attention. Born a girl in Hawaii to a violent, unpredictable father and a caring mother (who committed suicide while Beatie was a teen), Beatie learned to understand the nature of his identity against a backdrop dominated by fear and instability. Beatie is a detailed and engaging writer, relating his upbringing, his romance (with wife Nancy) and the process of transitioning from female to male with humility, honesty and plenty of opinion, and little to court sensation or controversy. For better and worse, the memoir reads predictably until Beatie and Nancy, 200 pages in, begin their struggles to get pregnant with daughter Susan. Once Beatie finds his focus in the obstacles he and his wife faced and overcame, his account becomes a compelling, unique narrative. Beatie's straightforward, apolitical style and compelling, elemental story-one man's struggle, against all odds, to create a family-will make it easy for most readers to identify.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780786741106
  • Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 11/4/2008
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Pages: 336
  • Sales rank: 336,373
  • File size: 341 KB
  • Items ship to U.S, APO/FPO and U.S. Protectorate addresses.

Meet the Author

Thomas Beatie was born and raised in Hawaii—as a girl, Tracy. Thomas made the transition to a male in the late 1990s. In July 2008, he gave birth to his daughter, Susan.

Currently, Thomas is happily married to his wife, Nancy, and is a custom screenprinter and owner of Define Normal Clothing Company. Thomas, Nancy, and Susan live together in Bend, Oregon.

Labor of Love is Thomas’ first book and the product of a lifelong passion since the age of seventeen.
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  • Posted March 2, 2009

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    interesting book

    I found that this was a good read.... I find it really interesting that they have stated many times that they did not want any media attention, but reading this book, you kinda wonder.

    I think more power to you and good luck. I know that your children will have loving parents....

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  • Posted August 25, 2011

    Sensationalism at its worst.

    Gender is a touchy subject, especially when you deal with those with unclear gender or SRS. The simple fact is that at this point in time no about of hormone replacement therapy or surgery can alter a persons genetic gender. Simply put; looking like, living as, and being referred too as a man does not make one a man, neither does having a penis. A Y chromosome makes an individual a man. As such this is, at it's core, a book about a woman, having a baby, not that special, and certainly not something that deserved the level of media attention this couple has received.

    Perhaps the only redeeming feature of the work is the way it exposes the bizarre and often illogical reactions people have to gender, the way it can cultivate rifts and prejudices in people on either side of the aisle. Even that though appears to have been an afterthought and the book can most easily be summed up by the following: "That guy says he's pregnant." There are hundreds of other more enlightening and scholarly works dealing with gender, gender identity, and the social and emotional roles of gender in human life available on this site alone. But if tabloids appeal to you, if your the sort of person who likes to point and laugh at the trans-gendered people you see in your daily life, then perhaps this is the book for you.

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