Vagina : a re-education

Enright, Lynn, author.

2020, Book , 229 pages :

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Summary/Review: From earliest childhood, girls are misled about their bodies, encouraged to describe their genitalia with cute and silly names rather than anatomicall more...

Summary/Review: From earliest childhood, girls are misled about their bodies, encouraged to describe their genitalia with cute and silly names rather than anatomically correct terms. Girls grow up feeling ashamed about their periods; they grow up without a full and honest sex education. Enright provides girls and women with information they need about their own bodies: about the vagina, the hymen, the clitoris, the orgasm; about conditions like endometriosis and vulvodynia. She confronts taboos, such as abortion, miscarriage, infertility, masturbation, female genital mutilation and the rights of transgender women. -- adapted from back cover

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Publication information:	London : Allen & Unwin, 2020.
Copyright:	©2019.
ISBN:	1911630024
ISBN:	9781911630029
Language:	English
Record ID:	3997899
Full edition title:	Paperback edition
Format:	Regular Print Book
Physical description:	229 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Date acquired:	January 4, 2021
More creator details:	Lynn Enright.
General note:	First published: 2019.
Contents note:	Introduction -- A sex re-education -- The facts (if we can call them that) -- The hymen, a useless symbol -- The clitoris, and how it's ignored -- The orgasm, and why everything's normal -- Appearances, and looking in the mirror -- Periods, and what makes them so awful -- Pain, as it applies to women -- Fertility, teaching it and talking about it -- Getting pregnant, and what comes next -- The vagina and menopause -- Does my vagina define me?
Summary/Review:	From earliest childhood, girls are misled about their bodies, encouraged to describe their genitalia with cute and silly names rather than anatomically correct terms. In our schools and in our culture, we are coy about women while putting straight men's sexuality front and centre. Girls grow up feeling ashamed about their periods, about the appearance of their vulvas, about their own desires. They grow up without a full and honest sex education, and this lack of knowledge has serious consequences: the number of women attending cervical screening appointments in the UK is at a 20-year low while labiaplasty is the fastest growing type of plastic surgery in the world. Vagina provides girls and women with information they need about their own bodies - about the vagina, the hymen, the clitoris, the orgasm; about conditions like endometriosis and vulvodynia. It confronts taboos, such as abortion, miscarriage, infertility and masturbation. It tackles vital social issues like period poverty, female genital mutilation and the rights of transgender women. It is honest and moving as Lynn Enright shares her personal stories but this is about more than one woman - this is a book that will provoke thousands of conversations. We urgently need to talk about women's sexual and reproductive health, about our experiences of sex and pregnancy and pain and pleasure. This book will help us do just that.

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