Freud famously said, “What we shall never know is what a woman wants.” Having paused thoughtfully over the syntax of that sentence, in which WE are plural but “a woman” apparently has no plural, no individuality—as we might read that a cow must be milked twice a day or a gerbil is a nice pet—WE might go on then to consider whether WE know anything about, whether WE have ever noticed, whether WE have ever asked a woman what she does—what women
