Discussion Questions
1. The opening of the story could be read
as introducing an alternate world, in which Joan of Are was a man. How
does the narrator close off this possible interpretation?
2. How do the embedded anecdotes examine
each of the following markers of sexual difference: genes, genitals, aggressive
behavior, nurturing behavior?
3. Does the story condemn men? Praise them?
4. Does it praise women? Condemn them?
5. The narrator says that he knows "more
about what it is to be a woman than what it is to be a man." Is this also
true of our culture? |
