![]() ![]() She’d gone to see The Vagina Monologues with friends, and had found it “deeply moving” she’d read about the discovery that the clitoris was tens of times larger than had previously been thought. Twenty years ago, when Blackledge had the idea for a book celebrating the beauty and power of the vagina, she was working as a science journalist for the European (she has a PhD in chemistry). “Some of the men in the meeting couldn’t even say the word.” They were horrified by the idea,” says Blackledge today. But the publishers were having none of it. But two decades ago, this decision didn’t go down well. As it is reissued, she talks about anasyrma as activism and why we lie about the clitorisĬatherine Blackledge immediately knew what her first book, a cultural history of the vagina spanning more than two millennia, should be called: Vagina. Twenty years ago, Catherine Blackledge’s history of the vagina The Story of V broke boundaries. ![]() Check out my interview with Guardian journalist Alison Flood at Īn extract from the article is published here. Raising the Skirt: the Unsung Power of the Vagina is in the national press. ![]()
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