Synopses & Reviews
What would you do if you suddenly woke up a woman?
The bestselling Dick for a Day: What Would You Do If You Had One? was an unprecedented crossover phenomenon, tickling humor fans, impressing gender studies buffs, and winning over readers of all ages. Now, in the interest of equality and fairness, editor Fiona Giles turns the tables, recruiting a varied stable of Y-chromosomed word-smiths to wax playful, erotic, and philosophic about how they would react if they suddenly discovered they had become distinctly female for a day. "Unlike its predecessor," Giles tells us in her introduction, "for this collection it turned out that a day just wasn't enough!"
Among this collection's brave contributors are alternative press darling Jonathan Ames, acclaimed novelist Rick Moody, premier British poet Jeremy Reed, Nerve founder Rufus Griscom, and rising star Justin Chin. Many of the contributions are comic, some are cautionary, and others are downright strange; but each, at its core, pays homage to women and their sexuality. Beyond the hilarious leaps of imagination and cleverly spun conceits, Chick for a Day's chief revelation is the way physical transformation into a woman encourages greater insights into the mind and spirit of both sexes.
Alternately outrageous and profound, Chick for a Day is an eclectic, unique tribute, loaded with eye-opening reading for men, women -- and everyone in between.
Synopsis
The editor of the acclaimed "Dick for a Day" turns the tables and queries: What would you do if you were a woman for just one day? She gets a range of thought-provoking answers in these stories, poems, and one-liners by celebrated male writers.
About the Author
Fiona Giles is an Australian scholar, writer, and feminist. A graduate of Oxford University, she lives in Sydney with her partner and two sons.
Table of Contents
Contents Introduction Fiona Giles
Kevin Downs The Duke and the Duchess
Bill Bozzone Breast Men
Richard Foerster Tiresias at Evening
Rick Moody Ineluctable Modality of the Vaginal
Doug Rice
Andrei Codrescu A True Story from New Orleans
William Levy All
Jeremy Reed Dream On
Alexander Theroux Spelunking
Robert Peters Pig Family Game
Justin Chin Marianne Faithfull's Cunt
Bayard Johnson Horseback
Alexandre Rockwell Spinach Dress
Hugh Fox What I Always Wanted
Brian Bouldrey Monster
Paul Agostino The Missionary
Ian Kerkhof Sometimes It Ain't Easy Being a Gal
Lawrence Chua
Paul Skiff Cunt Talk
Catfish McDaris Tea for Two
John Vanderslice The Body He Went to Bed With
Bruce Bauman The Newly Born Man
Rufus Griscom
Tad Richards The Major Wants to Adopt the Girls
Michael Martone Achilles Speaks of His Deception in the Court of Lykomedes
Rudy Rucker Joe Gets Blunzed
Paul West Pearl Harbor
Bill Buege My Lady
Jonathan Ames The Mangina
Gerald Locklin No Offense Intended
Bernard Cohen Go with the Flow
Andi & Lance Olsen X-Ray Dreams, 1963
Edward Field The Hunger of the Day Before
Sandip Roy The Pill
Thomas S. Roche Bacchus in Black Lace
Alfred Vitale So Much to Do and So Little Time
Evert Eden I Want to Be a Woman
Ronald Sukenick Womanizer
Notes on Contributors