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

Not since Kafka's Gregor Samsa awoke to discover that he'd turned into a cockroach has literature addressed such a traumatic transformation. In order to compile Dick for a Day, scholar and feminist Fiona Giles approached hundreds of well-known writers, poets, artists, actresses, and academics and asked them to express what they might feel if they abruptly found themselves genitally altered.

From Terry McMillan to Jennifer Blowdryer, from Patricia Cornwell to Linda Sexton Gray, we find unexpected answers: hygienic, erotic, metaphysical, and even spiritual. By turns playful and sociologically profound, Dick for a Day is a milestone in sophisticated humor and feminist literature.

Author: Fiona Giles
Publisher: Villard Books
Published: 02/01/1997
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.56w x 0.79d
ISBN: 9780679773535

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 10/01/1996 pg. 64
Publishers Weekly 12/16/1996 pg. 51
Booklist 01/01/1997 pg. 806
Library Journal 10/01/1996

About the Author
Fiona Giles was born and raised in Australia and educated at Oxford, where she specialized in nineteenth-century literature. She lives in New York City with her husband.