The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History - Couverture souple

Rees, Senior Lecturer Emma L. E.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1628922125 ISBN 13 : 9781628922127

Editeur : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Emma Rees is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Chester. Her first book, Margaret Cavendish: Gender, Genre, Exile was published in 2004 and since then she has had many other publications in the field of gender and representation. She is an accessible, strongly interdisciplinary writer.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Academic
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1628922125
• ISBN 13: 9781628922127
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 376
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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