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 59
... oxford shirt , rolled up her sleeves and stuck her Luckies in . She'd watched the other dykes . She knew better than to carry on her date the purse that she took to her day job at the garment factory . She tells me about trying to take ...
... oxford shirt , rolled up her sleeves and stuck her Luckies in . She'd watched the other dykes . She knew better than to carry on her date the purse that she took to her day job at the garment factory . She tells me about trying to take ...
Page 61
... oxford shirt . I'm not sending anything else down to them . She made me promise not to let them bury her in a dress . I'll send only those clothes , with her black penny loafers she kept shined up so nice . " In my hands the shoes are ...
... oxford shirt . I'm not sending anything else down to them . She made me promise not to let them bury her in a dress . I'll send only those clothes , with her black penny loafers she kept shined up so nice . " In my hands the shoes are ...
Page 88
... oxford shirt , men's slacks . The word spoken about you not in hostil- ity or misperception , but because , for you both , that is how flexible gender is . Meeting you for the first time over curried chicken and masala dosa , she is ...
... oxford shirt , men's slacks . The word spoken about you not in hostil- ity or misperception , but because , for you both , that is how flexible gender is . Meeting you for the first time over curried chicken and masala dosa , she is ...
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