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Article: Women, Writing, and Fetishism, 1890-1950: Female Cross-Gendering.(Book Review)
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- Journal of the History of Sexuality
- Article date:
- July 1, 2004
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Women, Writing, and Fetishism, 1890-1950: Female Cross-Gendering. By CLARE L. TAYLOR. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. vii + 254. $80.00 (cloth).
In his 1927 essay "Fetishism" Freud posited the disavowal of the mother's castration as the motivation behind fetishistic substitution. So if, as Freud assumed, women believe in their own genital castration, then women cannot be fetishists. In her study, Women, Writing, and Fetishism, 1890-1950, Taylor rejects this basic model. Following theorists such as Lorraine Gamman and Merja Makinen (Female Fetishism: A New Look, 1994), Sarah Kofman (The Enigma of Woman in Freud's Writing, 1985), and Teresa de Lauretis ...