{"product_id":"s-he-by-minnie-bruce-pratt","title":"S\/He by Minnie Bruce Pratt","description":"\u003cp class=\"text\"\u003eIn this series of poetic vignettes, award-winning poet Minnie Bruce Pratt explores the fluidity, capaciousness, unpredictability, malleability, and shifting everyday terrains of sex and gender.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"text\"\u003eAs memoir,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eS\/HE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003echallenges oppressive frames of respectability and womanhood, tracing Pratt's circuitous path through sex, gender, and sexuality.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eS\/HE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ealso narrates one of the greatest love stories of the twentieth century, providing an intimate portrayal of how Pratt and Leslie Feinberg met, fell in love, and built a life together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"text\"\u003eExamining the porous boundaries between masculinity and femininity and noting that liberation requires one to question and cross these binaries, Pratt theorizes sex and gender as not only grids for legibility and surveillance but also as spaces for freedom and pleasure. By drawing on the splendid ordinariness of everyday life and quotidian encounters, Pratt gives \" theory flesh and breath.\"\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eS\/HE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eimagines new queer, feminist engagements in bodies, in politics, and in the messy contradictions of sex and gender.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"text\"\u003ePaperback \/ 224 pages\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Bookish Type","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55273549758845,"sku":null,"price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/0891\/0933\/files\/9781944981761.jpg?v=1738753203","url":"https:\/\/thebookishtype.pro\/products\/s-he-by-minnie-bruce-pratt","provider":"The Bookish Type","version":"1.0","type":"link"}