Mind of Its Own A Cultural History of the Penis

Name: Mind of Its Own A Cultural History of the Penis
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ISBN: 9780142002599

ISBN-10: 0142002593

ISBN-13: 9780142002599

Edition: N/A

Authors: David M. Friedman

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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…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 1/28/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

David M. Friedman has written for Esquire, GQ, Rolling Stone, Vogue, The Village Voice, and many other publications. He has been a reporter for Newsdayand the Philadelphia Daily News.