num_pages: 592
description: Combining feminist, Freudian, and literary perspectives, Dr. Kaplan has created a new template for developing ideas about the nature of female perversion. Women are socialized to collaborate with prevailing gender stereotypes, she argues. Accordingly, they devise strategies to hide what she calls "stolen phallic trophies"--intellectual mastery and erotic strivings--perverse strategies that often caricature their femininity. Female perversions. Dr. Kaplan's vision, welcomed by popular and professional audiences alike and nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, has now inspired a major motion picture from October Films starring Tilda Swinton and Amy Madigan.
language: English
title: Female Perversions
titlecomplete: Female Perversions
genres: Sexuality, Psychology, Feminism, Gender and Sexuality, Womens, Psychoanalysis, Gender, Womens Studies, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 109
awards: awardedAt: 662716800000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Criticism
publisher: Jason Aronson Inc