Blood and Guts in High School"Janey lived in the locked room. Twice a day the Persian slave trader came in and taught her to be a whore. Otherwise there was nothing. One day she found a pencil stub and a scrap of paper in a forgotten corner of the room. She began to write down her life, starting with 'Parents stink.' Her father, who is also her boyfriend, has fallen in love with another woman and is about to leave her ... post-punk porn to post-punk feminism ... detailed eroticism with detailed politics and ... 'pop content'--a montage of conversation, description, conjecture, and moments snatched from history and literature"--Page 4 of cover. |
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Page 32
A few women had their boyfriends with them . They were lucky , I thought . Most of
us were alone . The women in my line were handed long business forms : at the
end of each form was a paragraph that stated she gave the doctor ...
A few women had their boyfriends with them . They were lucky , I thought . Most of
us were alone . The women in my line were handed long business forms : at the
end of each form was a paragraph that stated she gave the doctor ...
Page 129
In Constantine Genet makes Janey put on the double black dress of an Arabian
woman . A dress ... All the women ' s houses in the Arab section are brothels , so
to speak , but this is especially a brothel because its women cater to foreigners .
In Constantine Genet makes Janey put on the double black dress of an Arabian
woman . A dress ... All the women ' s houses in the Arab section are brothels , so
to speak , but this is especially a brothel because its women cater to foreigners .
Page 132
Women are worse than animals , Mr Knockwurst . They don ' t understand what ' s
happening as we do . Janey : For 2 , 000 years you ' ve had the nerve to tell
women who we are . We use your words ; we eat your food . Every way we get ...
Women are worse than animals , Mr Knockwurst . They don ' t understand what ' s
happening as we do . Janey : For 2 , 000 years you ' ve had the nerve to tell
women who we are . We use your words ; we eat your food . Every way we get ...
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Contents
Inside high school | 7 |
Outside high school | 44 |
Janey becomes a woman | 56 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Blood and Guts in High School An Evergreen book |
| Author | Kathy Acker |
| Publisher | Grove Press, 1984 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 4 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0802130755, 9780802130754 |
| Length | 165 pages |
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