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Female Perversions: The Temptations of Emma Bovary by Louise J. Kaplan (Paperback, 1997)

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Product Description : Combining feminist Freudian and literary perspectives Dr Kaplan has created a new template for developing ideas about the nature of female perversion Women are socialized to collaborate with prevailing gender stereotypes she argues Accordingly they devise strategies to hide what she calls stolen phallic trophiesintellectual mastery and erotic strivingsperverse strategies that often caricature their femininity Female perversions Dr Kaplans vision welcomed by popular and professional audiences alike and nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award has now inspired a major motion picture from October Films starring Tilda Swinton and Amy Madigan

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Conventional petticoats make ingenious hiding places for what Louise Kaplan calls stolen phallic trophies - intellectual mastery and erotic strivings whose full and open display is forbidden to women even now, at the close of the 20th century. In socialized collaboration with the still-prevailing primitive gender stereotypes, women devise strategies that caricature their femininity to disguise masculine accomplishments and ambitions. That consignment to bondage, bondage to the myth of primary femininity is, Dr. Kaplan concludes, a perversion. The existing definition of perversion (whereby the manifest focus, whatever the scenario, revolves around the erect penis and its sexual performance), derives from the psychology of males. Applying a new lens - feminist, Freudian and literary - Dr. Kaplan has created a new template for developing ideas regarding the nature of female perversion.