Every Inch a Woman: Phallic Possession, Femininity, and the Text (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780774812092)

Vendor: Carellin Brooks
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Format: Hardcover
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Every Inch a Woman: Phallic Possession, Femininity, and the Text

$105.00

Every Inch a Woman: Phallic Possession, Femininity, and the Text

$105.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Carellin Brooks
ISBN-10: 0774812095
ISBN-13: 9780774812092
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Language: English
Published: 12/12/2005
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Finalist
By Carellin Brooks
By Carellin Brooks
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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.

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