Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 10:24:23 -0400
Subject: Re: Fem what?


At 8:13 AM 4/10/96, Lisa Rogers wrote:

>Okay, Leo, now you've got me curious.  What are you talking about?  I
>guess this is another gap in my education...
>
>Lisa
>
>
>>>> <LeoCasey-AT-aol.com>  4/9/96, 09:04pm >>>
>... it sounds an awful lot like (if I may be forgiven an analogy
>which can not be empirically tested) the much maligned lit crit
>papers on the feminine phallus.

Surely this is not a reference to Roland Barthes' analysis of the female
penchant for knitting, which he ascribes to the woman's desire to knit her
pubic hair into a phallus?

Doug

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