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 33
... naked in the sun , on parched grass behind a tall hedge . I begin to write , but only in my journal about my dreams : A woman and I are sitting together , talking and looking at a book . Sud- denly I thrust my hands to her genitals and ...
... naked in the sun , on parched grass behind a tall hedge . I begin to write , but only in my journal about my dreams : A woman and I are sitting together , talking and looking at a book . Sud- denly I thrust my hands to her genitals and ...
Page 38
... naked in a silk robe , the contours of my body shifting as fluid as the fabric , skin flexible as silk . How much of a man would I be , how much of a woman ? If I could slip off the robe of my gender , my sex , who would I lie down with ...
... naked in a silk robe , the contours of my body shifting as fluid as the fabric , skin flexible as silk . How much of a man would I be , how much of a woman ? If I could slip off the robe of my gender , my sex , who would I lie down with ...
Page 169
... naked . We never had sex . He said something was wrong with him . I never knew . " Later I ask you , " Did the wife know ? " You say , " Very likely . But then she thought she was the only one . Now her mate is dead and she is alone ...
... naked . We never had sex . He said something was wrong with him . I never knew . " Later I ask you , " Did the wife know ? " You say , " Very likely . But then she thought she was the only one . Now her mate is dead and she is alone ...
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