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 58
... Maybe now I look like a young sailor on shore leave , maybe now I look like an adventure . When I step into her hallway , she stares and says , “ You've cut it so short . Now people will think you're the butch . ” She turns away without ...
... Maybe now I look like a young sailor on shore leave , maybe now I look like an adventure . When I step into her hallway , she stares and says , “ You've cut it so short . Now people will think you're the butch . ” She turns away without ...
Page 92
... Maybe he thought I was your husband , or your son . But maybe he read me as woman . ” You explain to me that you're more careful the closer you are to where you live— no Mr. or Ms. on your mailbox . You need home to be a refuge from ...
... Maybe he thought I was your husband , or your son . But maybe he read me as woman . ” You explain to me that you're more careful the closer you are to where you live— no Mr. or Ms. on your mailbox . You need home to be a refuge from ...
Page 153
... Maybe one was taunted as “ Daddy's girl ” or “ Jewish princess . ” Maybe the other was jeered as " Sapphire , " or always called out of her name into that of another dark woman . Each with her own story of the rooms she grew up in , and ...
... Maybe one was taunted as “ Daddy's girl ” or “ Jewish princess . ” Maybe the other was jeered as " Sapphire , " or always called out of her name into that of another dark woman . Each with her own story of the rooms she grew up in , and ...
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