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Every Inch a Woman: Phallic Possession, Femininity, and the Text
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
- Publish Date: Jul 1st, 2006
- Pages: 224
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.98in - 6.06in - 0.58in - 0.74lb
- EAN: 9780774812108
- Categories: • Women's Studies• General• Gender Studies
About the Author
Carellin Brooks was a Rhodes Scholar and holds a Master's in English literature from Oxford University. She is the editor of Bad Jobs and co-editor of Carnal Nation.
Praise for this book
And you thought all academic books were dull? . . . penetrating study of gender-bending penetration . . . .
-- (01/01/2005)