(no subject)

[deadpez.livejournal.com]

If you haven't read the book "Cunt," get up and go to a bookstore or library right now and steal it. I've never appreciated my period more then after I read this book. It's amazing!

Comments

[xviragox.livejournal.com]

I agree, that's a fantastic book. It was one of the things that made me look at my body differently...it ought to be required reading for women.

I wish my best friend would give it back. ;-)

[victorianbeauty.livejournal.com]

Maybe I should check that book out sometime for afterall I saw my body in a different light after seeing "The Vagina Monolouges".

Crystal

[illusionofcolor.livejournal.com]

Who is the author of the book? It might be easier to find it that way...thanks.

Abrazos,

I.o.C.

[deadpez.livejournal.com]

Actually, I first checked it out at the library, then went and bought my own copy. It's amazing. I read another book about body image called "Fat?!" that I highly recommend. The woman who wrote it was a bigger woman and she just shed light on what it was like to be fat and how you can be "pro-fat." It was really great. I mean, i'm not really a heavy girl, i weight about 140, but I love fat people!

[greyandred.livejournal.com]

I think the title is "Fat!So?" I believe it's by Nomy Lamm, although I'm not positive. Great book.

I enjoyed "Cunt," but I don't think it's flawless. She totally discounts the importance of having abortion available, focusing on how she aborted solely by willpower, and there's a lot of stuff like that. It just struck me as really middle-class and elitist-- I mean, there are so many women who desperately need access to affordable abortion, and all she can do is whine about how more people should stay home for a week taking herbs and meditating on miscarriage the way she did? Give me a break. I'm all for vagina positivity, but I live in the real world, and I get the feeling that Inga Muscio doesn't. That's not to say there's nothing good about the book, but I found it really alienating.

[manifestress.livejournal.com]

Interesting - just picked it up yesterday!

Along with Bitch and Bust magazines!

[stunning-corpse.livejournal.com]

My sister has it on her wishlist. I shall steal it from her bedroom, when she buys it.