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: An exploration of the interactionist sociology of gendered embodiment. Animals and Women: Feminist Theoretical Explorations

They called her the Sax Woman because she always stood on the corner where the subway breathes steam and where pigeons argued with pigeons. She wore a coat too thin for winter and a hat from another decade. Nobody knew her name. Some told stories: she’d been an heiress who gambled away everything for jazz; she’d been a runaway from a conservatory; she’d been a factory worker who learned to sing through metal. The truth, when anyone bothered asking, was slipperier. animal sax woman faking