Thinking About Women is work of feminist literary criticism by Mary Ellmann first published in 1968 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc. In it, she supposedly said “I am interested in women as words.” The publisher describes it as “a scathingly witty attack on literary misperceptions of women and prejudice against women in letters by an Oxonian critic and writer.” From the cover: “An original, often starling, genuinely funny, and deeply serious investigation of our conceptions of femininity as revealed by writers from Jane Austen to Mary McCarthy and Norman Mailer. ”

Anne Koedt used this book to refute Freud’s two-orgasm theory in her “The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm“.