Dress codes
of three girlhoods-- my mother's, my father's, and mine
1st ed.
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Word Count
83,000 words, Guess
Page Count
332 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Internet Archivedresscodesofthre00howe
- Internet Archivedresscodesofthre00noel
- Internet Archivedresscodesofthre0000howe
- ISBN-100312269218
- ISBN-139780312269210
and 4 more
- LibraryThing73811
- Library of Congress Control Number2001059060
- OCLC Control Number48613366
- Open LibraryOL3956408M
Classifications
- DDC306.874
- LCCHQ777.83 .H68 2002
- LCCHQ777.8 .H68 2002
Description
Throughout her childhood in suburban Ohio, Noelle struggled to gain love and affection from her distant father. In compensating for her father’s brusqueness, Noelle idolized her nurturing tomboy mother and her conservative grandma who tried to turn her into “a little lady.” At age 14, Noelle’s mom told her the family secret straight out: “Dad likes to wear women’s clothes.” As Noelle copes with a turbulent adolescence, further confused by the male and female role models she had as a girl, her father begins to metamorphose into the loving parent she had always longed for—only now outfitted in pedal pushers and pink lipstick. Could becoming a woman make her father a completely different person? With edgy humor, courage, and remarkable sensitivity, Noelle Howey challenges all of our beliefs in what constitutes gender and a “normal” family.
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