By Inga Muscio
ISBN-10: 1580050751
ISBN-13: 9781580050753
An historical name of recognize for ladies, the notice “cunt” in the past veered off this noble direction. Inga Muscio lines the line from honor to expletive, giving ladies the inducement and instruments to assert “cunt” as a favorable and strong strength of their lives. during this totally revised version, she explores, with candidness and humor, such conventional feminist matters as contraception, sexuality, jealousy among ladies, and prostitution with a clean perspective for a brand new new release of ladies. Sending out a decision for each lady to be the Cuntlovin’ Ruler of Her Sexual Universe, Muscio stands conference on its head by means of embracing all issues cunt-related. This version is absolutely revised with up-to-date assets, a brand new foreword from sexual pioneer Betty Dodson, and a brand new afterword via the writer. “Bright, sharp, empowering, long-lasting, invaluable, sexy....”—San Francisco Chronicle “... Cunt offers fertile flooring for mental growth.”—San Francisco Bay father or mother “Cunt does for feminism what smoothies did for high-fiber diets—it reinvents the oft-indigestible into whatever candy and delicious.”—Bust journal
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29 In her novels, Weldon takes apart the idea that women are natural mothers. In Down Among the Women, Jocelyn is a bad mother but not necessarily a bad person. In The Life and Loves o f a She-Devil, Ruth leaves her children in order to remake her life. 24 Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. “I have,” said Praxis. ” “Then heaven help the nation’s children,” said the deputy creative director. ” (Weldon, Praxis 203) The deputy creative director’s comments reveal the morality inherent in advertising.
Within the context of a post-war dream era, Friedan argues that the suburban housewife was “the dream image of the young American woman and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife—freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth and the illnesses of her grandmother” (13). In the United States and Britain, much advertising was aimed at housewives, identified by market researchers as the ones who had the time and the inclination to buy.
Like a vegetarian who writes ads for beef, Praxis is a working woman who writes copy that implies women should stay home. This contradiction reflects the difficult position women who both worked and had families faced in the 1960s; it was difficult to reconcile social expectations with women’s experiences. When Praxis tries to rectify this contradiction by writing ad copy targeting working mothers— “ ‘A working mother,’ wrote Praxis in her office, in deference to the changing times, ‘needs extra love and extra electricity’” (203)—it is rejected: “Too small a part of the market,” said the deputy creative director.
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