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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... legs , and chuckles . I argue with him until finally I refuse to sit with him and leave . I have no job interviews scheduled at the conference , but when I return to school I find the department has given me two classes , " Shakespeare ...
... legs , and chuckles . I argue with him until finally I refuse to sit with him and leave . I have no job interviews scheduled at the conference , but when I return to school I find the department has given me two classes , " Shakespeare ...
Page 75
... legs spread apart and their hands in their pockets , some are kiki or androgynous . But no one pushes masculine and feminine to the edge of woman as we do . We slow - dance , even to the fast songs . Every so often , the same woman ...
... legs spread apart and their hands in their pockets , some are kiki or androgynous . But no one pushes masculine and feminine to the edge of woman as we do . We slow - dance , even to the fast songs . Every so often , the same woman ...
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... legs and thick body , my wide face and high cheekbones , his gestures mine in a mirror . When I was a young wife , I grieved as the boy I married disappeared , the boy so afraid of growing up to be a girl that he had starved his curves ...
... legs and thick body , my wide face and high cheekbones , his gestures mine in a mirror . When I was a young wife , I grieved as the boy I married disappeared , the boy so afraid of growing up to be a girl that he had starved his curves ...
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