Female Perversions

by Louise J. Kaplan

Book Overview

Conventional petticoats make ingenious hiding places for what Louise Kaplan calls stolen phallic trophies - intellectual mastery and erotic strivings whose full and open display is forbidden to women... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385262337
• ISBN13: 9780385262330
• Release Date: December 1990
• Publisher: Nan A. Talese
• Length: 580 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.5" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Female Perversions

I'm currently reading this book for a women's studies class on psychoanalysis and gender. The author succeeds in posing critical questions to psychoanalytic theories of perversions such as fetichism, sadomasochism, etc. However, I think her arguments were clouded sometimes by what seemed like moral judgements, for example in saying that "Perverts don't make love, they make hate". It has really interesting case studies. I would recommend it to anyone interested in re-thinking psychoanalysis.

Female Perversions

I'm currently reading this book for a women's studies class on psychoanalysis and gender. The author succeeds in posing critical questions to psychoanalytic theories of perversions such as fetichism, sadomasochism, etc. However, I think her arguments were clouded sometimes by what seemed like moral judgements, for example in saying that "Perverts don't make love, they make hate". It has really interesting case studies. It also helps to analyze one's own behavior in terms of sexuality and its intersection with how we gender our actions in every day life. I would recommend it to anyone interested in re-thinking psychoanalysis.