Not least, it also recounts how feminine sexuality, identity and self-determination was for centuries suppressed, pathologized and declared inferior. This begins with the (matriarchal) prehistory up to the present-day, from primeval female figures with powerful vulvas to modern portrayals of women without any visible sexual organs. Īfter this introduction, the Swedish author (born 1979) proceeds to a comprehensively researched cultural history of the vulva that is delivered with feminist verve and vitriolic sarcasm. Due to medical and countless other reasons, this was preferably mutilated, cut or treated with acid. For example, men like the doctor and cornflakes inventor John Harvey Kellogg and the theologian Augustinus apparently contributed to the stigma that the vulva is impure and a source of numerous diseases. Rather, it is those who might have developed too big an interest in this – and she first presents the top ten of those who misunderstand women. The problem is not the men who are not interested in the female sex organ, claims Liv Strömquist slightly surprisingly at the start of “The Fruit of Knowledge”.
Liv Strömquist’s “The Fruit of Knowledge” is a unique non-fiction book about female sexuality.
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