(2000). Psychoanalytic Review, 87:310-314 Gender and Envy. Edited by Nancy Burke. New York: Routledge, 1998 328 pp. Review by: Karen Maroda, Ph.D. Gender and Envy is a book about penis envy and its inevitable intellectual legacy of conflict and controversy. This volume consists mostly of articles that have been published previously in a wide array of venues, including two chapters of Freud's writing. It is ably edited by Nancy - 310 -Burke, whose introductions to the material are extremely clear and well-written and serve as a concise guide for the reader. She integrates the papers and comments on their unique contributions to the penis envy dialogue, helping the reader to better understand and appreciate the material. She logically places Freud at the beginning, because all of the articles that follow are essentially responses to his famous dictum of 1925, which stated the following about girls: “They notice the penis of a brother or playmate, strikingly visible and of large proportions, at once recognize it as the superior counterpart of their own small and inconspicuous organ, and from that time forward fall [This is a summary or excerpt from the full text of the book or article. The full text of the document is available to subscribers.] |
