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
... skin , dry from months of chemotherapy , crumbles under my touch like dead leaves . She is sore everywhere . The wound in her belly is blood - rose - red against her dark skin . I rub her back which hurts all the time . I rub her feet ...
... skin , dry from months of chemotherapy , crumbles under my touch like dead leaves . She is sore everywhere . The wound in her belly is blood - rose - red against her dark skin . I rub her back which hurts all the time . I rub her feet ...
Page 78
... skin of my palm . I have the power to break apart the rock . Fire inside . Wanting you to take me , burn me up , nothing left of me but ashes , potash to the ground . Wanting you to sift me through your hands , disperse me , gather me ...
... skin of my palm . I have the power to break apart the rock . Fire inside . Wanting you to take me , burn me up , nothing left of me but ashes , potash to the ground . Wanting you to sift me through your hands , disperse me , gather me ...
Page 162
... skin had almost enough proof with- out a single piece of paper . For those with dark skin , often no number of documents was sufficient . I got my driver's license on my sixteenth birthday ; it was so easy . The examiners saw white and ...
... skin had almost enough proof with- out a single piece of paper . For those with dark skin , often no number of documents was sufficient . I got my driver's license on my sixteenth birthday ; it was so easy . The examiners saw white and ...
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