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stefanieh 's review for:
Fruit Of Knowledge: The Vulva vs. The Patriarchy
by Liv Strömquist
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.