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Skin: Talking about Sex, Class and Literature

by Dorothy Allison · 1994

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A fantastic collection of essays, autobiographical narratives, and performance pieces, including updated versions of earlier groundbreaking material with provocative new work by the lifelong feminist activist, controversial sex radical, and Southern expatriate writer with an attitude who brought us Bastard Out of Carolina, Trash, and The Women Who Hate Me. Funny, passionate, and compelling prose on what it means to be queer and happy about it in a world that is still arguing about what it means to be queer.

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politicspoliticsMore like thisLess of thisbiographybiographyMore like thisLess of thissociologysociologyMore like thisLess of thisliterary criticismliterary criticismMore like thisLess of thissocial sciencesocial scienceMore like thisLess of this
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LGBTLGBTMore like thisLess of thislesbianlesbianMore like thisLess of this
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feminismfeminismMore like thisLess of thisLGBTLGBTMore like thisLess of thisclassclassMore like thisLess of thisgendergenderMore like thisLess of thissexualitysexualityMore like thisLess of this
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20th century20th centuryMore like thisLess of thisAmerican SouthAmerican SouthMore like thisLess of thisUSAUSAMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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medium · 261 pages
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