Female Misbehavior
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Directed by Monika Treut • 1992 • Germany, United States
Monika Treut presents four short documentaries about individuals who live and act outside of society’s expectations of womanhood. In DR. PAGLIA,“Sexual Personae” author Camille Paglia holds court with writer Bruce Henderson. Then, in ANNIE, “post-porn modernist” Annie Sprinkle gives a PCA (Public Cervix Announcement). BONDAGE is a look at lesbian sadomasochism with Carol from New York’s Lesbian Sex Mafia. Finally, in the groundbreaking MAX, trans poet Max Wolf Valerio discusses his life and transition. What emerges from these four very different portraits is a compelling snapshot of those at the forefront of blurring and expanding the definition of sex and gender at the close of the twentieth century.
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