Description
Not since Kafka's Gregor Samsa awoke to discover that he'd turned into a cockroach has literature addressed such a traumatic transformation. In order to compile Dick for a Day, scholar and feminist Fiona Giles approached hundreds of well-known writers, poets, artists, actresses, and academics and asked them to express what they might feel if they abruptly found themselves genitally altered. From Terry McMillan to Jennifer Blowdryer, from Patricia Cornwell to Linda Sexton Gray, we find unexpected answers: hygienic, erotic, metaphysical, and even spiritual. By turns playful and sociologically profound, Dick for a Day is a milestone in sophisticated humor and feminist literature.
Author: Fiona Giles
Publisher: Villard Books
Published: 02/01/1997
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.56w x 0.79d
ISBN13: 9780679773535
ISBN10: 0679773533
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Gender Studies
- Social Science | Women's Studies
- Humor | General
Author: Fiona Giles
Publisher: Villard Books
Published: 02/01/1997
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.56w x 0.79d
ISBN13: 9780679773535
ISBN10: 0679773533
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Gender Studies
- Social Science | Women's Studies
- Humor | General
About the Author
Fiona Giles was born and raised in Australia and educated at Oxford, where she specialized in nineteenth-century literature. She lives in New York City with her husband.