CHICK FOR A DAY: What Would You Do If You Were One?

by Fiona Giles (Editor), John Vanderslice

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.

Genres: Gender, Short Stories, Humor, Nonfiction

256 pages, Hardcover

First published February 14, 2000

About the author

Fiona Giles is an Australian scholar and feminist, currently teaching in the Deptartment of Media Studies and Communication at Sydney University. She is also a freelance writer recently published in The Bulletin; Meanjin; Australian Way; Australian Author; and HQ. She has regular media appearances on 'Beauty and the Beast' for Foxtel and Channel 10.

Fiona is the author of Chick For A Day, Dick For A Day, Melanie , From The Verandah and Too Far Everywhere: The Romantic Heroine in 19th Century Australia

She lives in Sydney with her partner and two sons.

Reviews

[Maryjane Coons · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was expecting to be laughing NOPE this book has so dark stuff. ** I didn't read the introduction or the previous book about dicks/day**

[Kaion · Rating 2 out of 5]

Mostly skimmed from the clearance rack at the college bookstore, and indeed most of the stories revealed the male writers to be truly juvenile in their discomfort with the female psyche. There's at least two memorable stories though: (bear with my inconstant memory and doubtful internet information on this title) one with a transgender John Wayne working undercover with the CIA to defeat alien commies? and a rather haunting tale (by John Vanderslice?) of an office drudge whose new breasts come with unexpected emotional consequences.

[Saccharine Sydney · Rating 2 out of 5]

If you ever wanted to know how a vagina works, this book sure as hell won't help you. One of these authors thinks you can just stack them on penises like Lego blocks or something.

Sure was funny, though.