A Myth Beyond the Phallus: Female Fetishism in Kathy Acker’s Late Novels

Sept. 1, 2001

[1] Debates about female fetishism have been going on for almost two decades now; but there appears to be as yet no consensus about the value of claiming this particular practice for feminist politics. Ever since Sarah Kofman’s suggestion that a Derridean reading of Freud’s 1927 essay could not preclude...