<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 http-equiv=Content-Type><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <META content='"MSHTML 4.72.3110.7"' name=GENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>hey,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>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.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>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".)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>i don't know about the other questions. but i'd also like to know if claire booth luce dropped acid.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>best</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>christian</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>