Dick for a Day: What Would You Do If You Had One?, Fion - eBay (item 360201236426 end time Nov-23-09 08:02:49 PST)


This listing has ended. The seller has relisted this item or one like this. Item:Dick for a Day: What Would You Do If You Had One?, Fion View relisted item

Last updated on 05:16:36 PM PST, Nov 19, 2009 View all revisions

Item specifics - Nonfiction Books

Author:	Fiona Giles	Publisher:	Random House Inc
ISBN-10:	0679773533	Subject:	Literary Criticism
ISBN-13:	9780679773535	Topic:	--
Format:	Paperback	Language:	English
Publication Year:	1997	Condition:	Good
Special Attributes:	--

See reviews

Detailed item info

Synopsis
In this sometimes humorous What If?, female writers imagine what it would be like to have a penis. An imaginative approach to gender studies.
Details
Editor:	Fiona Giles

Size
Length:	279 pages
Height:	8.3 in.
Width:	5.5 in.
Thickness:	0.8 in.
Weight:	10.4 oz.

Publisher's Note
Not since Kafkas 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. What would a woman do if she awoke one morning to discover she'd grown a penis? Here's a collection of outrageous, artistic, and provocative answers from celebrities, authors, and feminists from around the world. From Terry McMillan to Jennifer Blowdry, from Patricia Cornwell to Linda Sexton Gray, readers find unexpected answers--hygienic, erotic, metaphysical and even spiritual.
Industry reviews
Don't let the outrageous title fool you. This collection of humorous feminist essays boasts contributors like Patricia Cornwell, Terry Macmillan, and Germaine Greer. Breitman Giles plays out a smart premise ask various famous and less-famous women what they would do if endowed with male genitals for 24 hours and gets surprisingly flaccid results. There are some funny one-liners (Terry McMillan: "First of all, I'd want to have a big one and I'd show everybody"). But most of the humor here comes not from inventive use of the equipment but from quirky takes on the question. In a hilarious poem, Senator Sin imagines that by calling the number "1-800-YOR-DICK" she participates in a study in which women are given penises and then report the results (with the poignant coda, "A few/ never returned/ their dicks,/ moved away/ from family/ and friends,/ and are assumed/ to be passing/ as men."). Lisa Hill goes further and creates a world where women routinely have "the op" in order to become hermaphrodites. Rather than turning more macho, these newly endowed women head off to penis parlors where they subject their penises to painful waxing and other beauty treatments. Entries with a sexual angle, like Germaine Greer's plan to have sex with herself if length permits, are less successful and become pedestrian because there are so many of them. Like Janyce Stefan-Cole, many of the women writing here imagine that merely possessing male genitals would make them unable to resist sexual urges for women ("They were beautiful; even the plain ones held hope and destiny between their legs."). Others, however, do not imagine the genitals attached to their bodies at all, but akin to animated sex toys. Mary Mackey, for example, conjures up a penis that "hovered over me, still wearing his cunning little black leather chaps." Perhaps the unimaginative results of this volume indicate that women really do spend as little time thinking about the thing as they claim. (Feb.) Lopate

Product Category : Books
ISBN : 0679773533
Title : Dick for a Day: What Would You Do If You Had One?
EAN : 9780679773535
Authors : Fiona Giles
Binding : Paperback
Publisher : Villard
Publication Date : 1997-02-25
Pages : 279
List Price (MSRP) : 19.00
Height : 0.7900 inches
Width : 5.5600 inches
Length : 8.5200 inches
Weight : 0.7100 pounds
Keywords : Love, Sex & Marriage, General, General AAS, Paperback, Printed Books
Condition : Good

Standard used condition. May have light reading or storage wear.

Shipping and handling

Item location: Foxboro, Massachusetts, United States

Shipping to: Worldwide

Change country:	ZIP Code:

Shipping and handling	To	Service	Estimated delivery*
Free shipping	United States	Standard Flat Rate Shipping Service	Varies Seller ships within 2 day after receiving cleared payment.
US $5.99	United States	Expedited Flat Rate Shipping Service	Varies Seller ships within 2 day after receiving cleared payment.

*The estimated delivery time is based on the seller's handling time, the shipping service selected, and when the seller receives cleared payment. Sellers are not responsible for shipping service transit times. Transit times may vary, particularly during peak periods.

Domestic handling time

Will usually ship within 2 business days of receiving cleared payment.

Return policy

The seller will not accept returns for this item.

Payment details

Payment method	Preferred/Accepted	Buyer protection on eBay
	PayPal Preferred	Pay with and your full purchase price is covered \| See terms