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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... story written by the same woman , about an old woman with a magic porridge pot that cooked at her command . You say , " I read that story too ! " One day a little girl , who had been secretly listening , got hold of the pot and spoke ...
... story written by the same woman , about an old woman with a magic porridge pot that cooked at her command . You say , " I read that story too ! " One day a little girl , who had been secretly listening , got hold of the pot and spoke ...
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... story , this is what I see : It is night , and police and state troopers , all men in full uniformed regalia , walk in pitch blackness up and down between loud rustling rows of corn . Each one is stalking down a narrow aisle where the ...
... story , this is what I see : It is night , and police and state troopers , all men in full uniformed regalia , walk in pitch blackness up and down between loud rustling rows of corn . Each one is stalking down a narrow aisle where the ...
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... Stories by Dionne Brand / $ 8.95 Scuttlebutt , A Novel by Jana Williams / $ 8.95 Shoulders , A Novel by Georgia Cotrell / $ 9.95 Simple Songs , Stories by Vickie Sears / $ 8.95 Sister Safety Pin , A Novel by Lorrie Sprecher / $ 9.95 ...
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