S/HEMinnie Bruce Pratt expands the boundaries of gender and its theory in these sophisticated lyrical vignettes sited at the crossroads of feminist analysis, queer theory and transgender liberation. |
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Page 58
In the summer I come to her door with hair freshly cut, shorn short as a boy's, but
with soft tendrils around my ears and neck. With hair this short, in jeans and T-
shirt, I've been called "Sir" once or twice by those who easily ignored my breasts.
In the summer I come to her door with hair freshly cut, shorn short as a boy's, but
with soft tendrils around my ears and neck. With hair this short, in jeans and T-
shirt, I've been called "Sir" once or twice by those who easily ignored my breasts.
Page 65
THE OLD DAYS Standing in the pit of the auditorium, you are someone I don't
know yet, handsome in silky shirt and tie, hair clipped close almost as skin on
your fine-boned head. You read a story about bar raids in the '50s, a dawn scene
on ...
THE OLD DAYS Standing in the pit of the auditorium, you are someone I don't
know yet, handsome in silky shirt and tie, hair clipped close almost as skin on
your fine-boned head. You read a story about bar raids in the '50s, a dawn scene
on ...
Page 77
When you turn your face to kiss me at a certain angle, I am caressed by an edge
of roughness, a rasp of hair at your chin's edge, a reminder of why on the street
you're sometimes still taken for a man, an edge that reminds me how you lived as
...
When you turn your face to kiss me at a certain angle, I am caressed by an edge
of roughness, a rasp of hair at your chin's edge, a reminder of why on the street
you're sometimes still taken for a man, an edge that reminds me how you lived as
...
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| Title | S/HE |
| Author | Minnie Bruce Pratt |
| Publisher | Firebrand Books, 1995 |
| ISBN | 1563410605, 9781563410604 |
| Length | 189 pages |
| Subjects | › Biography & Autobiography / General Social Science / Lesbian Studies |
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