Dick for a Day: What Would You Do If You Had One?

by Fiona Giles (Editor)

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What would you do if you woke up with a penis? In Dick for a Day, that outrageous question is posed to celebrated women - with extraordinary results: serious, humorous, and downright strange. In Dick for a Day, we find answers from many writers, feminists, scholars, performers, and artists. What's most exciting is that every woman will be able to ponder her response - and discover, in Dick for a Day, the basis for arguments, fantasies, and gender benders of the most provocative kind.

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velvetink 1,432 reviews

What a hoot! Entertaining for the most part, the poems left me dry and at least 2 stories were written by really angry women who I wouldn't like to meet and a few really got into the whole penis for a day premise - some erotic and one or two bordering on sci fi/fantasy . While I've given it 3 stars ~ it doesn't compare to my usual 3 star rating it is more of a 2 but funny..(I find the 2-3 star position difficult to decide). I think we should have 6 stars to rate from.

Interestingly Margaret Wertheim who wrote "Pythagoras' Trousers: God, Physics, and the Gender Wars" has a piece in "Dick for a Day", it seems to be lifted straight out of "Pythagoras...etc" mourning that physics is the last bastion of male power.

Thinking about this show more further decided to re rate it. Now it's a 2. Just ok. Except for two short stories the actual writing for the most part wasn't worth writing home about. show less

Mar 31, 2013

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