Reverse Cowgirl (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)
by McKenzie Wark
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Another genre for another gender.What if you were trans and didn't know it? What if there were some hole in your life and you didn't even know it was there? What if you went through life not knowing why you only felt at home in your body at peak moments of drugs and sex? What if you expended your days avoiding an absence, a hole in being? Reverse Cowgirl is not exactly a memoir. The author doesn't, in the end, have any answers as to who she really is or was, although maybe she figures out show more what she could become.Traveling from Sydney in the 1980s to New York today, Reverse Cowgirl is a comedy of errors, chronicling the author's failed attempts at being gay and at being straight across the shifting political and media landscapes of the late twentieth century. Finding that the established narratives of being transgender don't seem to apply to her, Wark borrows from the genres of autofiction, fictocriticism, and new narrative to create a writing practice that can discover the form of a life outside existing accounts of trans experience: an auto-ethnography of the opacity of the self. show lessTags
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2020. Autofiction and theory mix in this memoir of gender and sexuality. I have never read so much about anal sex. The writing really carries you along though. I quite enjoyed it.
cool book but i dont think im the target demographic for this lol. lots of sex and drugs and an interesting format but i couldnt relate to much, very much a trans fem experience. i did enjoy the concept but sex is the centerpiece and i am just not built like that
Required reading for all bottoms, but especially for the dolls.
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- Nonfiction, Sexuality and Gender Studies, Biography & Memoir, LGBTQ+
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- 155.33092 — Philosophy & psychology Psychology Differential and developmental psychology Sexuality and Gender Masculinity, Femininity, and Other Gender Orientations
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- HQ77.8 .W37 .A3 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women Sexual life Transexualism
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