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A Mind of Its Own
David M. Friedman
其他書名
A Cultural History of the Penis
出版Penguin Books, 2003
主題Psychology / Human SexualitySocial Science / Men's Studies
ISBN01420025939780142002599
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=INBXAAAAYAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Setting out to "make intellectual and emotional sense of a man's relationship with his defining organ," David Friedman moves from highbrow to lowbrow in this lighthearted but substantive cultural history. Successively viewed as a life source, a symbol of a sacred covenant with God, an emblem of shame, an instrument of domination, a mere prop for the pharmaceutical companies, and finally, as simply a means of penetration-the penis has always been at the core of Western man's (and woman's) cultural evolution. With such luminaries as Leonardo da Vinci, Sigmund Freud, Walt Whitman, and Norman Mailer marking their territory on the subject, A Mind of Its Ownis an intelligent and often hilarious account of man's complicated bond with his closest friend.