S/HE"In these lyrical vignettes, Pratt expands the boundaries of gender and its theory. She explores the inconsistencies, the infinities, the fluidity of sex and gender, and asks intriguing questions: How many ways are there to be girl, boy, man, woman? Is there a connection between feminine, masculine, lesbian, heterosexual, between desire and liberation? How many ways can the body's sex vary---by chromosomes, hormones, genitals? How many ways can our gender expressions multiply---between home and work, at the computer and when we kiss someone, in our dreams and when we walk down the street? What is our dream of who we want to be? Pratt's stories are part of new theory appearing at the intersections---of the feminism of U.S. women's liberation, the writings of women of color in the U.S. and internationally, the queer ideas of lesbian and gay liberation, and the emerging thought of transgender liberation. S/HE helps move these ideas into action by giving us theory that has flesh and breath, that exists in all of our eccentric, complicated, daily lives."--BOOK JACKET. |
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Page 25
In the evening , getting ready to go out , she stood naked before the mirror , her
brown breasts ' weight beginning to pull at her ribs . She dabbed Canoe
aftershave behind her ears and between her breasts . I watched her , with the
sharp taste ...
In the evening , getting ready to go out , she stood naked before the mirror , her
brown breasts ' weight beginning to pull at her ribs . She dabbed Canoe
aftershave behind her ears and between her breasts . I watched her , with the
sharp taste ...
Page 57
I giggle and thread it between my breasts , around my bare shoulders , perhaps
between my legs . My lover of six months sits watching on the edge of my tousled
bed . I walk toward her , playing at being one of the ships come sailing in on ...
I giggle and thread it between my breasts , around my bare shoulders , perhaps
between my legs . My lover of six months sits watching on the edge of my tousled
bed . I walk toward her , playing at being one of the ships come sailing in on ...
Page 136
Despising my breasts . When you first met me , you said , “ I read your love
poems . You never mentioned your breasts . ” You touched the tip of your tongue
to one nipple and said , “ I ' m going to kiss you lightly , lightly , until your breasts
feel ...
Despising my breasts . When you first met me , you said , “ I read your love
poems . You never mentioned your breasts . ” You touched the tip of your tongue
to one nipple and said , “ I ' m going to kiss you lightly , lightly , until your breasts
feel ...
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