Myra Breckinridge
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title:
Myra Breckinridge
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Myra Breckinridge is a 1968 satirical novel by Gore Vidal written in the form of a diary. Described by the critic Dennis Altman as "part of a major cultural assault on the assumed norms of gender and sexuality which swept the western world in the late 1960s and early 1970s", the book's major themes are feminism, transsexuality, American expressions of machismo and patriarchy, and deviant sexual practices, as filtered through an aggressively camp sensibility. The controversial book is also "the f
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1968 novel by Gore Vidal
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myra_Breckinridge
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2003-08-03T12:03:34Z
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2024-09-10T13:55:58Z
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