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Anger Management Kit

2013; Feminist Studies; Volume: 39; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/fem.2013.0020

2153-3873

Athena Edmonds,

Digital Economy and Work Transformation

Athena Edmonds Anger Management Kit Stop sayingyou're a boy,said the mother. I would ifI could, said the child. You must've wished for a boy whileyou werepregnant, said the mother's mother. That girljust wants to be noticed, the mother's mother said. I can fix her,said the mother's sister, she needs to come live withme. Why mustyou be a boyI asked the mother. For thesame reasonyou mustbe a girl, said the child. You can act like a boy, butyou'll be a woman whenyou grow up, said the mother. I'll stop when I grow up, said the child. Candles blown, cake cut, it was the mother's forty-fifth birthday. Here's your birthdaypresent, said the child, handing the mother a Ziploc with paper dolls. The mother pulled out the paper family. It was a mother, a father, three older sisters, and a young child. The paper mother's face was scarlet, the child's cyan. I drewyou witha redface, said the child. And thislittleone, witha blue-greenface. Whenyou're angry,beat up, kick,and yell at thislittleone, said the child. I would neverdo that,said the mother. That's whyI made it, said the child, so you don't. Beat up, kick,and yell at your real child. The real mother said, Thank you. The mother whose real face, like that of the paper mother's, now flushed scarlet. FeministStudies39, no. 1. © 2013 by Feminist Studies, Inc. 70 ...