This enormously enjoyable book is built on a clever premise—what would a woman do if she were given her own penis for a single day?—that would be easy to screw up. Scholar Fiona Giles posed the question to over 50 artists, celebrities, authors and thinkers, and then did a creditable job of including only the best. There are essays, poems and little fiction pieces by Terry McMillan, Patricia Cornwell, Jennifer Blowdryer, Linda Gray Sexton and dozens of others, and all of them are at least thought-provoking. By making the question as neutral and open-ended as possible, Giles was able to get her writers to open up on the mechanics and feelings that would come with their new addition. The results she got are surprising: The anger that some might expect shows up here and there, but Dick For A Day's main ingredient is humor. Of course, there are only so many things a woman, or anyone, can do with a penis, but the old cliché that "it's not what you do but how you do it" was never so true. Unfortunately, Dick For A Day will be mostly read by women, and that's a shame. It's a serious, compassionate look at a subject that concerns almost everyone.