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Rating: ![5 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-5-0.gif) Summary: Minnie Bruce the Revolutionary In-Between Writer Review: And you thought this text was about lovers who traverse gender and sexual dimensions of US culture? Since it's such a rich read, take another look at the revolutionary's socialist political cultural criticism. Minnie Bruce is doing a Lao Tzu impression to achieve a socio-cultural damnation of the US--"doing without doing." With lovers, gorgeous sexual scenes, deep intimacy in the foreground of her tiny "chapters"/stories, my favorite in-between writer is providing an understated socialist feminist critique. It is a genre-crossed book. Like the soft spoken and appearing Southern lady gone North as she is, Pratt's got a near subliminal "undertext" going on beneath the surface reading of everyday life stories. One of the most delightfully subversive texts I've read of a modern poetic prose writer. Oh give this one to all cultural and literary criticism students, queer theorists, transgender and gender studies scholars, and the poets, of course.
Rating: ![1 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-1-0.gif) Summary: Minnie Bruce Pratt is an extraordinarily irritable person Review: I admire Leslie Feinberg a great deal. Hir life hasn't been easy, but ze's managed to handle herself like a real gentlewo|man. As for Minnie Bruce Pratt, she seems to have a chip on her shoulder. When strangers eye her, wondering what sex Feinberg is or what she sees in hir, she thinks it's grand fun. I remember quite clearly an anecdote she tells about a self-defense class she once took: the teacher told her not to worry if she couldn't bring herself to hurt him because most women have a hard time overcoming their nice-girl training at first, and then she nearly broke his kneecap. I think Pratt loves the hostility Feinberg engenders more than she loves Feinberg, and I didn't enjoy her (temporary vicarious) company.
Rating: ![5 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-5-0.gif) Summary: If all this is new to you, open the door Review: Words flutter across the page like doves in flight, painting a picture of love like none I have ever seen before, yet as familiar to me as a lover's morning smile or an evening hug. Having already been moved to tears by Feinberg's *Stone Butch Blues*, Minnie Bruce Pratt was the natural next step toward understanding and awareness that only unfolded more of myself. If all this is new to you, open the door. If you are already a fan, you know what to expect. You won't be disappointed.
Rating: ![5 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-5-0.gif) Summary: If all this is new to you, open the door Review: Words flutter across the page like doves in flight, painting a picture of love like none I have ever seen before, yet as familiar to me as a lover's morning smile or an evening hug. Having already been moved to tears by Feinberg's *Stone Butch Blues*, Minnie Bruce Pratt was the natural next step toward understanding and awareness that only unfolded more of myself. If all this is new to you, open the door. If you are already a fan, you know what to expect. You won't be disappointed.
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