Jess

Name: Jess
Price: 4.99 EUR
Author: Peg Tittle
ISBN: 9781926891972

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Peg Tittle

Magenta
Paru le : 05/04/2022

Jess used to be a man. Then he found himself in a female body. It wasn't funny. Why would anyone even think it was?*There's a scene in Tootsie (1982)... > Lire la suite

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Jess used to be a man. Then he found himself in a female body. It wasn't funny. Why would anyone even think it was?*There's a scene in Tootsie (1982) that is surely one of the most unacclaimed scenes of all time: Dustin Hoffman's character, Michael, as 'Dorothy', makes a suggestion on the set, and the director dismisses it out of hand. As I remember it, Hoffman's face-conveying surprise, confusion, indignation-shows perfectly Michael's reaction to the absence of (and, just maybe, awareness of) male entitlement.
The entire movie should've been about that. Just that. It wasn't. And so I wrote Jess.*"[Jess'] perspective on being a girl and woman while having memories of being a man offers an understanding I'd never thought of. Really interesting book." poolays, LibraryThing"Very interesting book. ... Definitely worth reading." Dan, Goodreads

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Date de parution : 05/04/2022
Editeur : Magenta
ISBN : 978-1-926891-97-2
EAN : 9781926891972
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Biographie de Peg Tittle

Peg Tittle is the author of several novels: Fighting Words: notes for a future we won't have (Magenta), Jess (Magenta), Gender Fraud: a fiction (Magenta), Impact (Magenta), It Wasn't Enough (Magenta), What Happened to Tom (Inanna), and Exile (Rock's Mills Press). Both Gender Fraud: a fiction and It Wasn't Enough were Finalists in the Eric Hoffer competition; What Happened to Tom is on Goodreads' list of Fiction Books That Opened Your Eyes To A Social Or Political Issue. Her screenplays (including What Happened to Tom and Exile) have placed in several competitions, including Moondance, Fade-In, GimmeCredit, WriteMovies, Scriptapalooza, and American Gem.
Aiding the Enemy was produced by David McDonald. She has also written several nonfiction books: Just Think About It (Magenta); Sexist Shit that Pisses Me Off (Magenta); Critical Thinking: An Appeal to Reason (Routledge); Should Parents Be Licensed? Debating the Issues (Prometheus); What If? Collected Thought Experiments in Philosophy (Longman); Ethical Issues in Business: Inquiries, Cases, and Readings (Broadview).
She was a columnist for the Ethics and Emerging Technologies website for a year ("TransGendered Courage" received 35, 000 hits, making it #3 of the year, and "Ethics without Philosophers" received 34, 000 hits, making it #5 of the year), The Philosopher Magazine's online philosophy café for eight years, and Philosophy Now for two years. Her short commentary pieces have also been published in Humanist in Canada, Links, Inroads, Elenchus, Forum, and The Humanist.
Her longer pieces have appeared in Free Inquiry, The International Journal of Applied Philosophy, New Humanist, The New Zealand Rationalist, The Humanist, Philosophy in the Contemporary World, and Sexuality & Culture: an interdisciplinary journal. And she's had a list published at McSweeney's ("Why Feminist Manuscripts Aren't Getting Published Today"). She blogs sporadically at pegtittle.com and hellyeahimafeminist.com.
She has an M. A. in Philosophy, a B. Ed., and a B. A. in Literature, and has received over twenty Arts Council grants.