The Vagina · A Literary and Cultural History by Rees, Emma L.E. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Title Copyright Dedication Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements 1 Revealing the Vagina: Introduction

The mother of invention The naming of parts Crimes and Ms Demeanours Mapping bad language Down under Virgin sticks and cock thieves Covert visibility Armed to the teeth The scope of The Vagina

2 Revealing the Vagina: Antecedents

Something to get your teeth into The Knights party trick, or: Labile labialalia Mangogul and the ring of confidantes LOrigine du Monde Lip reading

3 Revealing the Vagina in Literature

In camera The political vagina The Second Coming Vagina qui verba facit: The flesh made word Simmering chickenshacks and pussyfloss: Imagining Loveland Ackers Algeria Bizarro jaunts Coda

4 Revealing the Vagina in Visual Art (1): Judy Chicago

Eating out Theres lots of vagina in our work Cunt art and butterflies The Dinner Party Critical responses and the unseen scene The Dinner Party: A wing and a prayer (to the goddess) The Dinner Party: The second course The Dinner Party: Last to be seated Journeys end?

5 Revealing the Vagina in Visual Art (2): Births Wide Berth

Endings and origins Artemisia Gentileschi Judith and Holofernes Permission to enter Why do we give birth a wide berth? Birth rites and wrongs Renaissance?

6 Revealing the Vagina on Film and TV

Anatomies of hell Abandon every hope, all you who enter Chatterbox: Speaking up for one self An eye for an eye: Lichtensteins Teeth Covert visibility on TV Youd be surprised at things that can talk Between women Charlotte in Connecticu(n)t Coda You cant see what I see

7 Revealing the Vagina in Performance Art

My body, my art The vulva monologues Talkin bout my (organs of) generation The power of pussy Changing the subject Owning up

8 Revealing the Vagina: Conclusion

Seeing the obscene The covert visibility of female genital mutilation The covert visibility of labiaplasty procedures The covert visibility of the menstruating woman Where The Vagina might lead Good language

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