TY  - BOOK
AU  - Strömquist, Liv
AU  - Bowers,Melissa
TI  - Fruit of knowledge : : the vulva vs. the patriarchy 
SN  - 9780349010731
AV  - PN6970.S883 S7513 2018
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Seattle, WA
PB  - Fantagraphics Books
KW  - Generative organs, Female
KW  - Comic books, strips, etc
KW  - Feminism
KW  - Human anatomy
KW  - Women
KW  - Sex
KW  - History
KW  - Orgasm
KW  - Menstruation
KW  - Graphic novels
KW  - Sweden
KW  - Graphic novel
N1  - Original Swedish edition published by Ordfront/Galago in 2014
N2  - From Adam and Eve to pussy hats, people have punished, praised, pathologised and politicised vulvas, vaginas, clitorises, and menstruation. In the international bestseller Fruit of Knowledge, celebrated 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 Alison Bechdel and Jacky Fleming, she uses the comics medium to reveal uncomfortable truths about how far we haven't come
ER  -