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  • Sexing is actually useful if you are breeding birds.

    Fowl Play « Awful Library Books 2010

  • Sexing the Cherry is a slim novel, a mere 140-pages, but they are so full of event and imagination that it would be hard to digest more.

    2009 January « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

  • According to Jennifer M. Jones (Sexing La Mode: Gender, Fashion and Commercial Culture in Old Regime France, 2004) and Joan DeJean (The Essence of Style, 2006, pp. 91 – 92), there is genuine disagreement among scholars of costume as to whether scarlet heels made their first walk-on appearance in sixteenth-century Venice, seventeenth-century England, or Sweden.

    Scarlet Heels 2009

  • Or, as the Wikipedia entry for Sexing the Cherry puts it: 'Sexing the Cherry is a postmodernist work and features many examples of intertextuality.

    Why Science Fiction Authors Can't Win Lou Anders 2009

  • Sexing it up versus being pleasant to look at tell two very different stories about a woman.

    Donna Flagg: Why Dressing for Business Should Not Resemble a Visit to a Sex Club Donna Flagg 2010

  • Sexing the Cherry takes us on its own journey to the outer limits of possibility, to remind us that the marvelous is only ever a brief flexing of the imagination away, and that we all have secret lives we need to explore and experience fully to be at peace.

    2009 January « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

  • Also Sexing the Cherry, which I read when it first came out.

    Fragments From A Week « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

  • According to Jennifer M. Jones (Sexing La Mode: Gender, Fashion and Commercial Culture in Old Regime France, 2004) and Joan DeJean (The Essence of Style, 2006, pp. 91 – 92), there is genuine disagreement among scholars of costume as to whether scarlet heels made their first walk-on appearance in sixteenth-century Venice, seventeenth-century England, or Sweden.

    Archive 2009-06-01 2009

  • Sexing the Cherry is full of interpolates stories, mostly based on the principle of the fairy tale, but with morals and messages that are subversive.

    2009 January « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

  • Sexing it up versus being pleasant to look at tell two very different stories about a woman.

    Donna Flagg: Why Dressing for Business Should Not Resemble a Visit to a Sex Club Donna Flagg 2010

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