Pratts brave memoir recounts her struggle to overcome the repressive traditions of the American South and live her life honestly. Riley (Editor), Chandra Talpade Mohanty (Editor), Minnie Bruce Pratt (Editor) 4.20 avg rating 70 ratings published 2008 6 editions. 'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title. Pratts brave memoir recounts her struggle to overcome the repressive traditions of the American South and live her life honestly. Members: Reviews: Popularity: Average rating: Mentions: 296: 1: 80,463 (4.26) 7: The long-awaited reprint of this classic work of lesbian literature. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. Clyburn education benefactors Martha and Bruce A. Honorary recipients include Congressman James E. In a long series of vignettes, Pratt chronicles her Southern youth, during which she was 'trained into the cult of pure white womanhood' and raised to be subjugated by a man her lengthy marriage, the birth of two sons, and her eventual leave-taking from that traditional role her coming out, living as a lesbian, and the fear it brought of 'a sisterhood based on biological definitions' and-at the book's pulsing, erotic core-her passionate love for a woman born female but male in gender expression, who often lives as a man and whom Pratt calls 'my husband.' Some straights and gays alike may be repulsed by Pratt, finding her neither a 'real woman' nor a 'real lesbian.' Others may applaud her efforts to eradicate boundaries. The degrees will be granted during the 155th Commencement Convocation on the main campus of Howard University’s Upper Quadrangle at 10 a.m. Pratt earned her doctorate in 1978 and has.

Pratt breaks traditions, restrictions, and taboos in what many-some with shocked horror, others with fascination-will find a high-risk book, almost sure to become one of the hottest this season in and perhaps also outside the lesbian community. She was born in Selma, raised in Centreville, and earned her bachelors degree at the University of Alabama.

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