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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... dream language ? What did he fantasize , what does he want to possess as he carefully pushes inside me ? I organize another CR group in the town where I now live . One of the women , who says nothing during the sessions , speaks to me ...
... dream language ? What did he fantasize , what does he want to possess as he carefully pushes inside me ? I organize another CR group in the town where I now live . One of the women , who says nothing during the sessions , speaks to me ...
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... dream : I am running down an endless sandy road , the dirt as fine as face powder . I am running from my husband who wants to kill me , to put me in a box , to blow me up . In the morning , after I take the children to school , I sit in ...
... dream : I am running down an endless sandy road , the dirt as fine as face powder . I am running from my husband who wants to kill me , to put me in a box , to blow me up . In the morning , after I take the children to school , I sit in ...
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... dream : I am in that cold room in bed , in sheer black nightclothes , sunlight over me . You ( yet this is not you ) sit in the kitchen with a man , and then bring him in to look at me . When he leaves , you bring in two more men to ...
... dream : I am in that cold room in bed , in sheer black nightclothes , sunlight over me . You ( yet this is not you ) sit in the kitchen with a man , and then bring him in to look at me . When he leaves , you bring in two more men to ...
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