Background
Raz, Hilda was born on May 4, 1938 in Rochester, New York, United States. Daughter of Franklyn Emmanuel and Dolly (Horwich) Raz.
( “Being a man, like being a woman, is something you have...)
“Being a man, like being a woman, is something you have to learn,” Aaron Raz Link remarks. Few would know this better than the coauthor of What Becomes You, who began life as a girl named Sarah and twenty-nine years later began life anew as a gay man. As he transforms from female to male and from teaching scientist to theatre performer, Link documents the extraordinary medical, social, legal, and personal processes involved in a complete identity change. Hilda Raz, a well-known feminist writer and teacher, observes this process both as an “astonished” parent and as a professor who has studied gender issues. All these perspectives come into play in this collaborative memoir, which travels between women’s experiences and men’s lives, explores the art and science of changing sex, maps uncharted family values, and journeys through a world transformed by surgery, hormones, love, and . . . clown school. Combining personal experience and critical analysis, the book is an unusual—and unusually fascinating—reflection on gender, sex, and the art of living. This Bison Books edition features a set of discussion questions.
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(This elegant and moving collection documents Hilda Raz's ...)
This elegant and moving collection documents Hilda Raz's experience with breast cancer. The journey, from diagnosis to chemotherapy to mastectomy, from denial to humor to grief and rage, is ultimately one of courage and creativity. The poems themselves are accessible and finely wrought. They are equally testaments to Raz's insistence on making an order out of chaos, of finding ways to create and understand and eventually accept new definitions of good and evil, health, blame, personal boundaries -- in short, a new sense of self. These poems remain intimately bound to the world and of the senses, becoming documents of transformation.
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educator Editor-in-chief periodical
Raz, Hilda was born on May 4, 1938 in Rochester, New York, United States. Daughter of Franklyn Emmanuel and Dolly (Horwich) Raz.
Bachelor, Boston University, 1960.
Assistant director, Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, Boston, 1960-1962;
edit assistant, Prairie Schooner, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1970-1974;
contributing editor, Prairie Schooner, 1974-1977;
associate editor, Prairie Schooner, 1977-1987;
acting editor, Prairie Schooner, 1981-1983, 85;
poetry editor, Prairie Schooner, 1980-1987;
editor-in-chief, Prairie Schooner, since 1987;
professor department England, U. Nebraska, Lincoln, since 1990. Lecturer, reader, panelist in field. Participant many workshops, symposia, conferences.
Panelist arts committee National Education Association, 1994. Judge Kenyon Review, 1990, Society Midland Authors Best Book of 1987 award, 198, Illinois Art Council/National Education Association fellowships, 1987. Board of Governors Center for Great Plains Studies, U. Nebraska, 1989-1995.
( “Being a man, like being a woman, is something you have...)
(This elegant and moving collection documents Hilda Raz's ...)
President Association Writing Programs, board directors, 1988-1989, ex-officio president, 1989-1990, vice president, 1987-1988. Member program committee Friends of Libraries U. Nebraska,1989-1990. Board directors Nebraska Library.
Heritage Association, 1988-1991. Member Mayor'sBlue Ribbon Committee on Arts, 1985-1988. Board directors Planned Parenthood League Nebraska, 1978-1983, secretary board directors, 1979-1980, chairperson long-term planning committee, 1980-1981, 81-82.
Married Frederick M. Link, June 9, 1957 (divorced 1969). Children: John Franklin Link, Aaron Link. Married Dale Nordyke, October 4, 1980.