| Every Inch a Woman: Phallic Possession, Femininity, and the Text Contributor(s): Brooks, Carellin (Author) |
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ISBN: 0774812109 ISBN-13: 9780774812108 Publisher: University of British Columbia Press OUR PRICE: $36.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2006 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Women's Studies - Literary Criticism - Social Science | Gender Studies |
| Dewey: 809.933 |
| Series: Sexuality Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.58" H x 6.06" W x 8.98" (0.74 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Sex & Gender - Gay - Sex & Gender - Lesbian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What makes the textual image of a woman with a penis so compelling, malleable, and persistent? The phallic woman can be a ribald joke, a fantastical impossibility, a masculine usurper, an ultimately unthreatening sexual style, an interrogation into the I of the author, or an examination of female culpability. Every Inch a Woman takes note of a proliferation of phallic feminine figures in disparate North American and European texts from the end of the nineteenth century onward. Carellin Brooks traces this phallic-woman motif backward to the sexological case study, and forward to newspaper accounts of testosterone-taking third-sexers. Brooks examines both high and low literature, pornography, postmodern theory, and writing. |