Zahra’s Reviews > Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings: The Emotional Costs of Everyday Life > Status Update

“Until relatively recently, the lack of a penis kept women from voting, working for wages, owning property, going to school, participating in the arts, writing books, doing sports, and even walking alone in public places. In this sense, the privileging of the penis was definitely not Freud’s invention (as some have argued); it was a social reality he diagnosed and analyzed.”