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A review by bookhoarding
Vagina: A New Biography by Naomi Wolf
5.0
A multidisciplinary look at the vagina that I think should be utilized in sex-ed courses (at least portions of it). From the lengthy history of attitudes and treatment of the female reproductive system, to modern media studies on acculturation Wolf weaves in the scientific with the phenomenological successfully. She openly admits to faults in her studies and the studies she includes (like limits to heterosexual couples, Western women and lack of male consideration in some), which really serves to strengthen the reading because you are aware from the start who she is talking about and therefore how she can expertly talk about them.
Yes, there is a lot of conversation about sex, but so much more of the reading is around how the vagina is contextualized within the conversations that have already been created around it. Wolf explores the ways in which authors (female and male) have discussed the vagina and maturity along with that. She also shows have the medical community has treated this most tender of places.
Overall a great read for any woman, no matter the place you are in life. We have spent so much of our lives being told not to discuss this part of ourselves and what Wolf proves is that the vagina actually helps to define who we are on a daily basis (mostly through hormones). Why ignore it?
Yes, there is a lot of conversation about sex, but so much more of the reading is around how the vagina is contextualized within the conversations that have already been created around it. Wolf explores the ways in which authors (female and male) have discussed the vagina and maturity along with that. She also shows have the medical community has treated this most tender of places.
Overall a great read for any woman, no matter the place you are in life. We have spent so much of our lives being told not to discuss this part of ourselves and what Wolf proves is that the vagina actually helps to define who we are on a daily basis (mostly through hormones). Why ignore it?