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 43
... night- mare , as a man opens his knife again to rape her . I did not tell the audience that my lover , and the woman who painted the pictures , and I who organized the conference , went to town one night to go dancing at a new bar , but ...
... night- mare , as a man opens his knife again to rape her . I did not tell the audience that my lover , and the woman who painted the pictures , and I who organized the conference , went to town one night to go dancing at a new bar , but ...
Page 52
... night from dinner , and kept her right hand on me while she steered and shifted with her left . I held her hand in mine , blissful to be handled after years of no touch . When we got into the car , did she open my door for me ? Perhaps ...
... night from dinner , and kept her right hand on me while she steered and shifted with her left . I held her hand in mine , blissful to be handled after years of no touch . When we got into the car , did she open my door for me ? Perhaps ...
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... night shadows of the stunted sycamores , onto a street where she and I are the only people at almost midnight . We turn left at the old county jail , empty and dark , an unused graveyard overgrown with razorwire that droops like wild ...
... night shadows of the stunted sycamores , onto a street where she and I are the only people at almost midnight . We turn left at the old county jail , empty and dark , an unused graveyard overgrown with razorwire that droops like wild ...
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