phallic possession, femininity, and the text
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Brooks, Carellin
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- WER 54 2006
- Thesaurus
- vrouwenstudies, vrouwelijkheid, mannelijkheid, vrouwbeelden, gender, socialisatie, transgenders, travestie, lesbianisme, psychoanalyse, literatuur, pornografie, postmodernisme, theorieën, Noord-Amerika, Europa, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw
- Description
- This publication takes note of a proliferation of phallic feminine figures in disparate North American and European texts from the end of the nineteenth century onward. 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'.