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The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History de Senior Lecturer Emma L. E. Rees

The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History

Autor Senior Lecturer Emma L. E. Rees
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 feb 2015
FromSouth Parkto Kathy Acker, from Lars Von Trier toSex and the City, women's sexual organs are demonized. InThe Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History, Emma L.E. Rees investigates the evolution of this demonization: she considers how writers, artists and filmmakers contend with the dilemma of he vagina's puzzling 'covert visibility' and how the 'c-word' is an obscenity that both legitimates and perpetuates the fractured identities of women globally. In our postmodern, porn-obsessed culture, vaginas appear to be everywhere, literally or symbolically but, crucially, they are as silenced as they are objectified. Even common slang terms for the vagina can be seen as an attempt to divert attention away from the reality of women's lived sexual experiences: slang offers a convenient distraction from something taboo.The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural Historyis an important contribution to the ongoing debate in understanding the feminine identity.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781628922127
ISBN-10: 1628922125
Pagini: 376
Ilustrații: 1x8pp colour plate section
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

The first book on this topic to cover the post modern world.

Notă biografică

Emma L.E. Rees is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Chester, UK.

Cuprins

1. Revealing the Vagina: Introduction2. Revealing the Vagina: Antecedents3.Revealing the Vagina in Literature4. Revealing the Vagina in Visual Art (1): Judy Chicago5. Revealing the Vagina in Visual Art (2): Birth's Wide Berth6. Revealing the Vagina on Film and TV7. Revealing the Vagina in Performance Art8. Revealing the Vagina: ConclusionRevealing the Vagina: BibliographyIndex

Recenzii

Don't be fooled by the playful pink cover-this book is not for the faint of heart. Ranging from Indian folktales of vagina dentata to the surprising popularity of vaginas in postmodern art, Rees' book is a whirlwind tour of the literary and cultural history of the treatment (and mistreatment) of female genitalia.
For readers disappointed by Naomi Wolf's treatise on a similar topic last year, this is the book you've been waiting for. This may not be the definitive text on the vagina - Rees is clear that she can't overturn centuries of embarrassment and taboo in a single book - but it's an excellent place to start.
It is my contention that you will know quite instinctively if you are the target reader for a book describing itself as a literary and cultural history of vaginas. (Vaginae? Vaginodes?) How does this description of Judy Chicago's art make you feel? "Each plate, a vulvar motif at its centre, represents a woman's yearning for autonomy and recognition away from patriarchy's eradications and constraints." If you found that intriguing, rather than snigger-worthy or arcanely academic, you will enjoy what's on offer here. There is a learned digression on other words for vagina...and a survey of depictions of female genitalia in folk tales, film, literature, art and television... The examples are well chosen and engaging.
The broadest survey yet ....lively, thought-provoking, and richly researched.
At last! A book on the vagina that I feel privileged to endorse. This careful literary and cultural history explores the vagina primarily as a loaded cultural symbol. It critiques the numerous ways in which the female sexual organs have had deleterious meanings projected onto them by patriarchal society. A magnificent achievement, Rees's study is as insightful in its analysis as it is comprehensive in its historical coverage.
This really wonderful book on the cultural history of the vagina is scholarly and accessible, entertaining and serious. It is stylish and packed with insight; it will be seized upon and devoured by the new feminists. The Vagina bejazzles. I highly recommend it.
With Vagina, Rees is aiming for something well beyond 'feminism.' To get there, she uses humor, numerous examples, and careful explanation as she moves effortlessly through a variety of historical periods and a wide genre of 'art' to demonstrate her point.
Analyses of representations of the vagina in art and culture couple with feminist politics in this impassioned tract by University of Chester lecturer Rees.
Rees is especially strong on the rapidly evolving (and more in-your-face) artistic (or would-be artistic) representation of the [vagina] in contemporary (Western, and even here basically American and British) culture, both fringe and more mainstream...Rees offers many interesting examples and the odd tidbit[s] (Courbet's L'origine du monde comes from the collection of psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan!), and though she works more by example than evaluation, there's a lot of useful information here.

Descriere

From South Park to Kathy Acker, from Lars Von Trier to Sex and the City, women's sexual organs are demonized. In The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History, Emma L.E. Rees investigates the evolution of this demonization: she considers how writers, artists and filmmakers contend with the dilemma of he vagina's puzzling 'covert visibility' and how the 'c-word' is an obscenity that both legitimates and perpetuates the fractured identities of women globally. In our postmodern, porn-obsessed culture, vaginas appear to be everywhere, literally or symbolically but, crucially, they are as silenced as they are objectified. Even common slang terms for the vagina can be seen as an attempt to divert attention away from the reality of women's lived sexual experiences: slang offers a convenient distraction from something taboo. The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History is an important contribution to the ongoing debate in understanding the feminine identity.