What makes the textual image of a woman with a penis so compelling,malleable, and persistent? The phallic woman can be a ribald joke, afantastical impossibility, a masculine usurper, an ultimatelyunthreatening sexual style, an interrogation into the I of the author,or an examination of female culpability. Every Inch a Woman takes noteof a proliferation of phallic feminine figures in disparate NorthAmerican and European texts from the end of the nineteenth centuryonward. Carellin Brooks traces this phallic-woman motif backward to thesexological case study, and forward to newspaper accounts oftestosterone-taking third-sexers. Brooks examines both high and lowliterature, pornography, postmodern theory, and writing.
- ISBN10 1282740873
- ISBN13 9781282740877
- Publish Date 1 January 2007 (first published 30 November 2005)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 19 May 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint UBC Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 240
- Language English