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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Minnie Bruce Pratt. CORNFIELD O n this night of the full moon I've come with my old friend to celebrate my getting older , my birthday . We've had sup- per at the Southern Grill , a diner at a crossroads that has nothing else but a gas ...
Minnie Bruce Pratt. CORNFIELD O n this night of the full moon I've come with my old friend to celebrate my getting older , my birthday . We've had sup- per at the Southern Grill , a diner at a crossroads that has nothing else but a gas ...
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... I've sat waiting . Once , when I tried to write my way out , the poets who were men said to me , " Beauty is its own excuse for being . " Now I make poems for her where vulva petals turn into blade - sharp teeth . I caress the edge of ...
... I've sat waiting . Once , when I tried to write my way out , the poets who were men said to me , " Beauty is its own excuse for being . " Now I make poems for her where vulva petals turn into blade - sharp teeth . I caress the edge of ...
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... ve always started life in a new apartment with a fresh coat of paint . I don't ask you if you've ever had to live on ... I've been driving from my city to you on that road . Some nights , late , it would blur in darkness and tears ; it ...
... ve always started life in a new apartment with a fresh coat of paint . I don't ask you if you've ever had to live on ... I've been driving from my city to you on that road . Some nights , late , it would blur in darkness and tears ; it ...
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