billy tipton

christian a. gregory driver at nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu
Fri Jun 5 06:12:58 PDT 1998


hey,

there was an "interesting" article about tipton in the nytimes on tuesday (2 june). and it would appear that, with his first wife anyway, he had sex using a prosthetic device. his wife, betty cox, believed that she had had a miscarriage when she didn't conceive.

i say "interesting" because the article is really a long promo piece for a new biography by diane middlebrook. from what i can tell, middlebrook's view of gender is basically a bad (but not wholly unusual) reading of _gender trouble_. as in all those "makeover narratives" on jenny jones, social mobility there is really just a function of appearance, and so one's ability to "move" successfully just depends upon one's willingness to obey the conventions of dress required at a particular moment. (this is an ideologeme of what evan watkins calls "technoideological coding" in his very smart book "throwaways".)

i don't know about the other questions. but i'd also like to know if claire booth luce dropped acid.

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