We did not directly read Lacan for this course. However, the Lacanian concept of the phallus as universal signifier (a.k.a. "phallogocentrism") was discussed in Ann Snitow, "A Gender Diary", p. 18 (Hirsch and Fox Keller); Elizabeth Abel, "Race Class, and Psychoanalysis?" in passing, p. 192 (Hirsch and Fox Keller); Peggy Kamuf and Nancy K. Miller, "Parisian Letters" again in passing, p. 131 (Hirsch and Fox Keller); discussed for a paragraph or two p. 91 in Tania Modleski, _Feminism Without Women: Culture and Criticism in a "Postfeminist" Age_ (NY: Routledge: 1991) .

The idea is developed and discussed most seriously and attentively in the works of Luce Irigaray, e.g., Speculum of the Other Woman (Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1985)

See also Nina Baym, "The Madwoman and Her Languages: Why I Don't Do Feminist Literary Theory", discussion pp. 157-160 (Warhol and Price Herndl)