{"product_id":"every-inch-a-woman","title":"Every Inch a Woman","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat makes the textual image of a woman with a penis so compelling, malleable, and persistent? Although the figure of the phallic woman is in no sense unique to our age, \u003cem\u003eEvery Inch a Woman\u003c\/em\u003e takes note of a proliferation of phallic feminine figures in disparate North American and European texts from the end of the nineteenth century onward. This multiplication, which continues today, admits of a corresponding multiplicity of motives. The phallic woman can be a ribald joke, a fantastical impossibility, a masculine usurper, an ultimately unthreatening sexual style, an interrogation into the \u003cem\u003eI\u003c\/em\u003e of the author, or an examination of female culpability.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarellin Brooks takes up the textual figure of the phallic woman where Freud locates it, in the imagined mother that the little boy, in fantasy, credits with a penis of her own. It 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 that would seem to answer Lacan’s injunction to move \"beyond the phallus.\" Witty and engaging, \u003cem\u003eEvery Inch a Woman\u003c\/em\u003e makes an innovative contribution to sexuality, gender, and women’s studies, as well as psychoanalytic theory and criticism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Carellin Brooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53616309141884,"sku":"9780774812092","price":87.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780774812092_fea3a973-fd17-455b-b4c7-399d8389dac8.jpg?v=1727873139","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/every-inch-a-woman","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}