Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender

Description

Riki Anne Wilchins has written the book that may take the discussion of gender over the top." "In a voice that is by turns outraged, outrageous, sad, and hilarious, Wilchins - cofounder of the Transexual Menace and Executive Director of GenderPAC - weaves theory and personal experience into a story of self-discovery." "Lesbians, feminists, queer academics, activists, transpeople, the "queer-on-the-street," and mainstream readers hungry for writing that pushes the absolute edge of the gender envelope - Read My Lips will change the way you think about bodies, sex, and gender. Why this book -- 17 things you DON'T say to a transexual -- What does it cost to tell the truth? -- Video tape -- Sex! Is a verb -- The menace statement to Janice Raymond -- Birth of the homosexual -- The gay games controversy -- Why identity politics really, really sucks --Photographs from a movement -- The menace in Michigan -- Our cunts are NOT the same -- A fascism of meaning -- CLICK. Hello? -- Imaginary bodies, imagining minds -- Eroticism: on the uses of difference -- Lines in the sand, cries of desire -- Interview with a menace -- A selected chronology of the transexual menace and GenderPAC -- A subversive glossary.