A origem do mundo : uma histr̤ia cultural da vagina ou a vulva vs. o patriarcado

by Liv Strm̲quist

Ebook, 2018

Status

Disponível

Collection

Publication

Sô Paulo : Quadrinhos na Cia, 2018

Description

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 c… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member villemezbrown
A raucous, outrageous, and outraging history of vulvas, vaginas, and menstruation and the men who hate them.

Maybe if more people read books like this, we'd have fewer books like Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands.
LibraryThing member Lady_Lazarus
Lots of interesting facts about history of women's genitalia and sexuality. Funny and thought-provoking.

Awards

Prix Artémisia (Nominee — 2017)

Language

Original language

Swedish

Original publication date

2014-09-15

Media reviews

The Swedish cartoonist’s sophisticated comic strip is a brilliantly drawn, cleverly researched and deeply funny account of a battle signposted by its subtitle: The vulva vs the patriarchy. The opening chapter on “Men who have been too interested in the Female Genitalia”, shows a roster of
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lascivious prudes including St Augustine, Georges Cuvier and Isaac Baker-Brown, the Victorian doctor who liked to prescribe a clitoridectomy to any lady patient complaining of headaches. Strömquist portrays women throughout history looking baffled, angry, or resigned as a stream of priests, judges and husbands peer at their genitals and declare them to be deformed, wicked, or just too damn hot for their own good.
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Rating

(51 ratings; 4.2)
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