Men Undressed: Women Writers and the Male Sexual Experience

by Stacy Bierlein, Gina Frangello (Editor), Cris Mazza (Editor)

From D. H. Lawrence to Philip Roth, acclaimed male writers have depicted sex from the perspective of female characters. Now, women writers from Aimee Bender to Jennifer Egan engage in provocative fictional cross-dressing, exploring sexuality from the male point of view. With a foreword by Steve Almond, this provocative collection includes work from twenty-six women in all, including Bender, Egan, Susan Minot, Elizabeth Benedict, Alicia Erian, and Diane Williams. Edited by Gina Frangello, Stacy Bierlein, Cris Mazza and Kat Meads—four women with a great deal of experience as editors ( Other Voices Magazine , OV Books, anthologies) and authors.

Genres: Nonfiction

350 pages, Paperback

First published September 20, 2011

About the author

STACY BIERLEIN is the author of the forthcoming story collection, A Vacation on the Island of Ex-Boyfriends (March 2012), and the editor of the award-winning fiction anthology A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross Cultural Collision and Connection. She is a coeditor of the new anthology Men Undressed: Women Writers and the Male Sexual Experience (October 2011). Bierlein is a founding editor of Other Voices Books, and co-creator of the Morgan Street International Novel Series. She contributes essays about writing and publishing to TheNervousBeakdown.com. Originally from Michigan, she now makes her home in Southern California.

Reviews

[Richard Thomas · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a provocative collection of short stories. Full review coming at, appropriately, Bookslut.

[Alexa]

Won this off of Nova Ren Suma's blog. Very very excited.

[Ian · Rating 5 out of 5]

Incredible collection of diverse works. Well worth the read.