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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... another woman , and knew that was what I wanted , I had just begun to call myself a femi- nist . I was learning how many traps the female body could be caught in — sexual assault and rape , beatings in the home , our thoughts turned ...
... another woman , and knew that was what I wanted , I had just begun to call myself a femi- nist . I was learning how many traps the female body could be caught in — sexual assault and rape , beatings in the home , our thoughts turned ...
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... woman who mutilates her genitals . I feel the blood on my hands as she scrapes her insides out . I wish I were running away in a car with another woman , driving farther south into the heat , sweating inside the translucent blue voile ...
... woman who mutilates her genitals . I feel the blood on my hands as she scrapes her insides out . I wish I were running away in a car with another woman , driving farther south into the heat , sweating inside the translucent blue voile ...
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... woman we can not see : A white woman , lying in the dirt of her front yard , whipped into tatters for being a slut , white trash , the skirt of her dress blowing like torn paper in the night wind . Far outside the frame is another woman ...
... woman we can not see : A white woman , lying in the dirt of her front yard , whipped into tatters for being a slut , white trash , the skirt of her dress blowing like torn paper in the night wind . Far outside the frame is another woman ...
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