Every Inch a Woman: Phallic Possession, Femininity, and the Text (Sexuality Studies)

Brooks, Carellin

ISBN 10: 0774812109 / ISBN 13: 9780774812108

Published by UBC Press, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Every Inch a Woman: Phallic Possession, Femininity, and the Text (Sexuality Studies)
• Publisher: UBC Press
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0774812109
• ISBN 13: 9780774812108
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

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.