Intersex

For lack of a Better Word

Thea Hillman

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Manic D Press,U.S.
10 November 2008

Gender studies, gender groups

""In Hillman's world, the surer you become about who you are, the more vulnerable you get.""-The San Francisco Bay Guardian

""Hillman's writing is sexy because it's smart and refuses to simplify things.""-Fabula Magazine

""Hillman's utterly unabashed memoir...showcases both the personal, embodied realities of intersex, and the social and political milieus that shape them... Intersex, too, is gorgeously written.""-Women's Review of Books

""It's utterly impossible to not be spellbound by performer-activist Thea Hillman, in person or in print ... A must-read.""-Curve

""There's nothing else in print like this amazing and courageous book.""-Patrick Califia, author of Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism

""An important and wonderfully disarming book. Poetic, political, and deeply personal.""-Beth Lisick, author of Helping Me Help Myself

Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word) chronicles one person's search for self in a world obsessed with normal. What is ""intersex""? According to the Intersex Society of North America, the word describes someone born with sex chromosomes, genitalia, or an internal reproductive system that are neither clearly male nor clearly female. In first-person prose as intimate as a diary, Thea Hillman redefines memoir in a series of compelling stories that take a no-holds-barred look at sex, gender, family, and community. Whether she's pondering quirky family tendencies (""Drag""), reflecting on ""queerness"" (""Another""), or recounting scintillating adventures in San Francisco's sex clubs, Hillman's brave and fierce vision for cultural and societal change shines through.

According to a special report by the Traditional Values Coalition entitled ""Homosexual Urban Myth,"" award-winning writer Thea Hillman is a radical who conducts erotic readings to promote the ""homosexual revolution."" Thea offers presentations about sex and gender and performs her work at colleges and festivals around the country. She lives in Oakland, California.

By: Thea Hillman
Imprint: Manic D Press,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 219g
ISBN: 9781933149240
ISBN 10: 1933149248
Pages: 159
Publication Date: 10 November 2008
Recommended Age: From 16 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

According to a special reoprt by the Traditional Values Coalition entitled ""Homosexual Urban Myth,"" Thea Hillman is a radical who conducts erotic readings to promote the ""homosexual revolution."" She frequently does presentations about sex and gender at colleges, conferences, and festival throughout the US.

Reviews for Intersex (For lack of a Better Word)

From the reviews: <p> The text contains a large number of simple examples. The appendix collects together results from linear systems theory and probability, which may be helpful in understanding the material. The bibliography...is accurate and up-to-date. The treatment of robust stability and stabilization is carried out in parallel with the corresponding results for nominal systems models; this feature will be particularly useful to practicing engineers. Also, almost all of the results are expressed in terms of LMIs and/or their solutions; this is a unifying characteristic and is indeed advantageous on account of readily available complete catalog of the results in the area of MLSs; practicing engineers, in particular, will find it useful. a Mathematical Reviews <p> Boukas defines a stochastic switching system as a linear control problem with dynamics partially determined by a finite-state Markov process. a ] the book may appeal to experts in control theory who already have intuition about linear control systems and may understand the results without needing to peruse the derivations. (Peter C. Kiessler, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 103 (481), 2008)