![]() ![]() ![]() In deference to the more obvious of the child's sex organs, Treadway decides that they will name him Wayne and take him to hospital for the necessary surgery. When it does finally come up, Treadway's is a rational and logical response, built on his instinct to protect his child. So the fact that she chose a hermaphrodite as the main character for her first novel represents a natural progression: The baby is a literal union of the sexes.įor the first few days of their baby's life, Jacinta and Treadway do not discuss the fact of its ambiguous gender. Her 2007 collection of short stories,īoYs, limned the daily disconnections between the sexes, major and minor, that keep us from fully comprehending one another. It's fair to say the riddle of gender has engaged Kathleen Winter for some time now. ![]()
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