The Female Thing: Dirt, Sex, Envy, Vulnerability
- ISBN-10
- 0307275779
- ISBN-13
- 9780307275776
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 173
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Author
- Laura Kipnis
Description
A study of the state of the female psyche looks at four key issues of feminism and femininity to reveal women's own complicity in their subjection as she explores the female condition in relation to the ideas of envy, dirt, sex, and vulnerability. By the author of Against Love. Reprint.
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