Sexing the text : the rhetoric of sexual difference in British literature, 1700-1750 / Todd C. Parker.

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2000.

x, 218 pages ; 24 cm

Onania: self-pollution and the danger of female sexuality -- Swift and the political anus -- Pope's to Cobham and To a lady: empiricism and the synecdochic woman -- Haywood's Philidore and Placentia or What the eunuch lost -- Reading the rhetoric of sexual difference in Cleland's memoirs of a woman of pleasure.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-209) and index.