Fruit Of Knowledge: The Vulva vs. The Patriarchy

Fruit Of Knowledge: The Vulva vs. The Patriarchy

Paperback
4.01

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Beschreibung

From Adam and Eve to pussy hats, people have punished, praised, pathologized, and politicized vulvas, vaginas, clitorises, and menstruation. In this graphic nonfiction book, drawn in chunky, punky pen, Swedish cartoonist Liv Strömquist traces how different cultures and traditions have shaped women’s health and beyond. Her biting, informed commentary and ponytailed avatar guides the reader from the darkest chapters of history (a clitoridectomy performed on a five-year-old American child as late as 1948) to the lightest (vulvas used as architectural details as a symbol of protection). Like humorists Julie Doucet (Dirty Plotte), Alison Bechdel (Dykes to Watch Out For), and Kate Beaton (Hark! A Vagrant), she uses the comics medium to reveal uncomfortable truths about how far we haven’t come.
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Alle
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3.5-4 Strömquist has collected lots of (hi)stories and myths about women, patriarchy, menstruation… and put them together in several comics. I love her drawing style and her humour, and gaped in awe (or disbelief… or anger…) of some of the facts she presents here. The downside for me was, that these stories often seemed randomly threwn together and I was missing an arc, in some of the chapters more than in others. All in all, an entertaining AND educating read though!

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