the flip side essay on Sexing the Cherry by jeanette winterson

erson" in their lives. She has no problem with killing people and not being clean. "Many of them have set upon me for my insolence, and of most those are dead"(91) If we where to use clear binary divisions, then one could observe that women today seem to be typecast as being the sex that represents cleanliness; Dog Woman doesn't clean at all. Most characteristics that represent women today don't fit Dog Woman. As Jordan states, " she is silent, the way men are supposed to be"(114).
             Jordan is a dreamer. He says " I want to be brave and admired and have a beautiful wife and a fine house."(114) Such dreams of white picket fences have been reserved for the female gender in today's society. Jordan is a gardener, a calm
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