Boss Ladies, Watch Out!: Essays on Women, Sex and Writing

by Terry Castle

A new collection of essays on literature and sexuality by one of the wittiest and most iconoclastic critics writing today.

310 pages, Paperback

First published August 23, 2002

About the author

Terry Castle was once described by Susan Sontag as "the most expressive, most enlightening literary critic at large today." She is the author of seven books of criticism, including The Apparitional Lesbian: Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture (1993) and Boss Ladies, Watch Out! Essays on Women and Sex (2002). Her antholoy, The Literature of Lesbianism, won the Lambda Literary Editor's Choice Award in 2003. She lives in San Franciso and is Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University.

Reviews

[Thorn MotherIssues · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've read this before but wanted to go back to it after reading The Professor. Awfully fun academic writing.

[Kate O’Carroll · Rating 5 out of 5]

Xmas gift from dad

Some huge gems about lesbian history like one woman who lived on an island alone with a little male doll that was her masc alter ego

[Lizzy · Rating 4 out of 5]

That I may have a writing style as distinctive and as clear as Prof. Castle's some day.

[Karen]

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