Vagina Monologue

The vagina is back at the centre of feminist discourse. Naomi Wolf is writing ‘A Cultural History of the Vagina’.

Ladies and gentlemen, the vagina is back as the centre of discourse. Fiery feminist and journalist Naomi Wolf has been signed on to write A Cultural History of the Vagina (tentative title) by Ecco Press, an imprint of Harper Collins. Wolf’s books are pretty much publishing events in the academic world. Her 1990 book, The Beauty Myth, is regarded by many, including formidable feminist thinkers Germaine Greer and Gloria Steinem, to have ushered in the third wave of feminism. The Rhodes Scholar famously argued in the book about the unattainable, patriarchal concept of the ‘iron maiden’ that women are made to measure up to. ‘More women have more money and power and scope and legal recognition than we have ever had before; but in terms of how we feel about ourselves physically, we may actually be worse off than our unliberated grandmothers,’ she wrote. We’re waiting. And expecting fireworks, if not fatwas.

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