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Takových informací na tak málo stránkách je až neskutečné. Občas se autorka trošku opakuje, ale myslím, že mladším čtenářům to snad zdůrazní důležitost sdělení. Po kreslířské stránce je kniha zvláštní, ale má své kouzlo. O spoustě věcí jsem neměla ani tušení a určitě by si měli knížku přečíst i muži.
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In her book Liv Strömquist explores how genitalia-obsessed men have shaped our society in which the vulva, the vagina, the clitoris and menstruation are basically everything but seen as normal. She breaks taboos around the female body, introduces us to amazing vulva statues (vulvas were used in architecture to protect the house, how amazing is that?!) and provides us with a very fact-based though not at all dry book.
She talks about our society's issues in a very witty way which makes the book extremely readable and funny. However, it's always clear that the issues themselves are serious and definitely no joke. For me, that's the perfect way to talk about feminism!
If you're looking for an amazing and quick feminist read, this is the book you need! It's highly educational, shocking, frustrating (why aren't girls allowed to learn that their clitoris is amazing and actually much bigger than what can be seen on the outside?? There is so much misinformation even in new textbooks...) and entertaining. Reading this it definitely felt like Liv Strömquist was my best friend (I wish that was true
In her book Liv Strömquist explores how genitalia-obsessed men have shaped our society in which the vulva, the vagina, the clitoris and menstruation are basically everything but seen as normal. She breaks taboos around the female body, introduces us to amazing vulva statues (vulvas were used in architecture to protect the house, how amazing is that?!) and provides us with a very fact-based though not at all dry book.
She talks about our society's issues in a very witty way which makes the book extremely readable and funny. However, it's always clear that the issues themselves are serious and definitely no joke. For me, that's the perfect way to talk about feminism!
If you're looking for an amazing and quick feminist read, this is the book you need! It's highly educational, shocking, frustrating (why aren't girls allowed to learn that their clitoris is amazing and actually much bigger than what can be seen on the outside?? There is so much misinformation even in new textbooks...) and entertaining. Reading this it definitely felt like Liv Strömquist was my best friend (I wish that was true
This should be read by every human being. So incredible and I loved it! Non Fiction Graphic Novels is my new favourite genre.
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“Ceterum censeo vulvam sanctissimae majestatis ante coitum esse tilliandum.”
“Moreover, I think the vulva of Her Most Holy Majesty should be titillated before intercourse.”
“Moreover, I think the vulva of Her Most Holy Majesty should be titillated before intercourse.”
Graphic novel/comic in translation. Makes me wonder who redoes the lettering?
Anyway. A fun book about a not so fun patriarchy. Wonderfully over the top and full of satire that highlights the absurdity of the patriarchy. I mean exhuming Queen Christina of Sweden 300+ years after her death because a group of men were obsessed with the possibility she may have been intersexual? Seriously? Of course there was nothing but a skeleton and they had to admit they couldn't confirm anything.
I think my favorite section though was "Feeling Eve: Or In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens." It takes on menstruation, why all ads for women's products are so concerned about feeling fresh and how Freud and his pal Wilhelm Fliess, an ear nose and throat doctor, believed that a woman's nose was interconnected with her genitals. Together they ruined women's lives because of this stupid theory. And in at least one case, they almost killed a woman and permanently disfigured her after nose surgery went wrong.
In the vulva v. the patriarchy, I think the patriarchy may have won some big battles, but the vulva is winning the war, especially with fantastic books like this one.
Anyway. A fun book about a not so fun patriarchy. Wonderfully over the top and full of satire that highlights the absurdity of the patriarchy. I mean exhuming Queen Christina of Sweden 300+ years after her death because a group of men were obsessed with the possibility she may have been intersexual? Seriously? Of course there was nothing but a skeleton and they had to admit they couldn't confirm anything.
I think my favorite section though was "Feeling Eve: Or In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens." It takes on menstruation, why all ads for women's products are so concerned about feeling fresh and how Freud and his pal Wilhelm Fliess, an ear nose and throat doctor, believed that a woman's nose was interconnected with her genitals. Together they ruined women's lives because of this stupid theory. And in at least one case, they almost killed a woman and permanently disfigured her after nose surgery went wrong.
In the vulva v. the patriarchy, I think the patriarchy may have won some big battles, but the vulva is winning the war, especially with fantastic books like this one.
