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 69
You take the edge of my ear in your warm mouth. I lift your hand, and lick each
finger, and the webbing between, and wonder when to mention safe sex. I say, "
We'll be more comfortable on the couch." I get up, light a candle, turn off the lamp.
You take the edge of my ear in your warm mouth. I lift your hand, and lick each
finger, and the webbing between, and wonder when to mention safe sex. I say, "
We'll be more comfortable on the couch." I get up, light a candle, turn off the lamp.
Page 99
The way you brave every day, charming and implacable by turns, the blows you
will tell an audience about as a political lesson, but the exact wounds hidden
even as you lie in my arms. There is almost nowhere for you to be and not be ...
The way you brave every day, charming and implacable by turns, the blows you
will tell an audience about as a political lesson, but the exact wounds hidden
even as you lie in my arms. There is almost nowhere for you to be and not be ...
Page 139
We turn left at the old county jail, empty and dark, an unused graveyard
overgrown with razorwire that droops like wild grapevines. As we turn, a police
car pulls up across from us. Two long siren shrieks blare. We look around; there
is no one ...
We turn left at the old county jail, empty and dark, an unused graveyard
overgrown with razorwire that droops like wild grapevines. As we turn, a police
car pulls up across from us. Two long siren shrieks blare. We look around; there
is no one ...
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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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