Vagina (50 page)

19
. “Case Study: The European Witch-Hunts, c. 1450–1750,” www.gendercide.org/case_witchhunts.html.

20
. Dr. Emma Rees, “Cordelia’s Can’t: Rhetorics of Reticence and (Dis)ease in King Lear,”
Rhetorics of Bodily Disease and Health in Medieval and Early Modern England,
ed. Jennifer Vaught (London: Ashgate, 2010), 105–16.

21
. Rees, “Cordelia’s Can’t,” 105–16.

22
. William Shakespeare,
The Compete Works,
ed. G. B. Harrison (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1958), 1546.

23
. Rees, “Cordelia’s Can’t,” 110.

24
. Ibid.

25
. Ibid.

26
. Ibid.

27
. John Donne,
The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne,
ed. Charles M. Coffin (New York: Modern Library, 2001), 85.

28
. Naomi Wolf, “Lost and Found: The Story of the Clitoris,” in
Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood
(New York: Random House, 2003), 143–53. Also Catherine Blackledge,
The Story of V: A Natural History of Female Sexuality
(New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2004), 125.

29
. Laqueur,
Making Sex,
4, 239.

Chapter 8: The Victorian Vagina: Medicalization and Subjugation

1
. Michel Foucault,
The History of Sexuality,
vol 1,
An Introduction
(New York: Vintage, 1990), 12.

2
. Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson,
A Dark Science: Women, Sexuality, and Psychiatry in the Nineteenth Century
(New York: Noonday Press, 1988), 63–65.

3
. Erna Olafson Hellerstein, Leslie Parker Hume, and Karen M. Offen, eds.,
Victorian Women: A Documentary Account of Women’s Lives in Nineteenth-Century England, France, and the United States
(Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 1981), 5.

4
. William Acton,
A Complete Practical Treatise on Venereal Diseases
(London: Ibotson and Palmer, 1866), cited in
Suffer and Be Still: Women in the Victorian Age,
ed. Martha Vicinus (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1973), 82–83, 84.

5
. Steven Seidman,
Romantic Longings: Love in America, 1830–1980
(New York: Routledge, 1993), 33.

6
. Hellerstein, Hume, and Offen,
Victorian Women,
3.

7
. Ibid., 5.

8
. Ibid.

9
. Masson,
A Dark Science,
3.

10
. Ibid., 65–90.

11
. Dr. Emma Rees, “Narrating the Victorian Vagina: Charlotte Brontë and the Masturbating Woman,”
The Female Body in Medicine and Literature,
ed. Andrew Maugham (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2011), 119–34.

12
. Peter T. Cominos, “Innocent Femina Sensualis in Unconscious Conflict,” and E. M. Sigsworth and T. J. Wyke, “A Study of Victorian Prostitution and Venereal Disease,” in Vicinus,
Suffer and Be Still,
77–99, 155–72. See also
A New Woman Reader,
ed. Carolyn Christensen Nelson (New York: Broadview Press, 2000).

13
. See A. N. Wilson,
The Victorians
(New York: W. W. Norton, 2003).
A History of Private Life,
vol. 4,
From the Fires of Revolution to the Great War,
ed. Michelle Perrot (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990), 261–337. There were countercurrents to the Victorian and Edwardian hostility to the vagina: in Victorian and Edwardian France, a betrothed man would send flowers that symbolized vulval engorgement, in the days leading up to his wedding: “Following an oriental custom, some men chose flowers that gradually turned redder and redder until on the eve of the wedding, they became purple, as a symbol of ardent love. Manuals of etiquette declared this new fashion to be in the worst possible taste.” Ibid., 311.

14
. George Eliot,
The Mill on the Floss
(London: Penguin, 1979), 318, 338.

15
. Rees, “Narrating the Victorian Vagina,” 119–34.

16
. Christina Rossetti,
Poems and Prose,
ed. Simon Humphries (Oxford, UK: Oxford World Classics, 2008), 105–19.

17
. See Richard von Krafft-Ebing,
Aberrations of Sexual Life: The Psychopathia Sexualis
(London: Panther, 1951); Havelock Ellis and John Addington Symonds,
Sexual Inversion
(New York: Arno Press, 1975).

18
.
Freud on Women: A Reader,
ed. Elisabeth Young-Bruehl (New York: W. W. Norton, 1990), 137.

19
. Wilhelm Stekel,
Frigidity in Woman,
vol. 2,
The Parapathiac Disorders
(New York: Liveright, 1926), 1–62.

Chapter 9: Modernism: The “Liberated” Vagina

1
. Steven Seidman,
Romantic Longings: Love in America, 1830–1980
(New York: Routledge, 1993), 76–77.

2
. Elizabeth Sprigge,
Gertrude Stein: Her Life and Work
(New York: Harper and Brothers, 1957), 128.

3
. Ibid., 94.

4
. Rhonda K. Garelick,
Electric Salome: Loie Fuller’s Performance of Modernism
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007), 164–65.

5
. Hunter Drohojowska-Philp,
Full Bloom: The Art and Life of Georgia O’Keeffe
(New York: W. W. Norton, 2004), 115, 135. Sarah Greenough, ed.,
My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz
(New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012), 127.

6
. Edna St. Vincent Millay,
Collected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay,
ed. Norma Millay (New York: HarperPerennial, 1981), 19.

7
. Ellen Chesler,
Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992), 272, 343.

8
. Remy de Gourmont,
The Natural Philosophy of Love,
trans. Ezra Pound (London: Casanova Society, 1922), 205–6.

9
. Henry Miller,
Tropic of Cancer
(New York: Grove Press, 1961), 2.

10
. Ibid., 24, 31.

11
. Michael Whitworth, “Modernism” (lecture, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford, May 10, 2011).

12
. Mina Loy,
The Lost Lunar Baedeker,
ed. Roger L. Conover (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997), xv.

13
. D. H. Lawrence,
Women in Love
(New York: Penguin, 1987), 37, 55–56.

14
. Anaïs Nin,
Delta of Venus
(New York: Penguin Modern Classics, 1977), 8–19.

15
. Miller,
Tropic of Cancer,
31.

16
. Paul Garon
, Blues and the Poetic Spirit
(London: Eddison Press, 1975), 69.

17
. Memphis Minnie, “If You See My Rooster,” Bluesistheroots, www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxSjUmGweqg.

18
. Bessie Smith, “I Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl,” www.lyricstime.com/bessie_smith_i_need_a_little_sugar_in_my_bowl_lyrics.html.

19
. Merline Johnson, the Yas Yas Girl, “Don’t You Feel My Leg,” 1938, www.jazzdocumentation.ch/audio/rsrf/high.ram.

20
. Ruth Brown, “If I Can’t Sell It I’ll Keep Sittin’ on It (Before I Give It Away),” 1940,
Essential Women of Blues,
compact disc, Hill/Razaf, Joe Davis Music.

21
. See Betty Friedan,
The Feminine Mystique
(New York: W. W. Norton, 2001).

22
. See Shere Hite,
The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality
(New York: Macmillan, 1976).

23
. Betty Dodson, “Getting to Know Me,”
Ms.
magazine, 1974, in Jeffrey Escoffier,
Sexual Revolution
(New York: Running Press, 2003), 698.

24
. Germaine Greer,
The Madwoman’s Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings
(New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1994), 74–89.

25
. Erica Jong,
Fear of Flying
(New York: Signet, 1974), 310–11.

26
. Seidman,
Romantic Longings,
150–51.

27
. Ibid.

28
. Andrea Dworkin
, Intercourse
(New York: Free Press, 1997), 188.

29
. Ibid.

Three / Who Names the Vagina?

Chapter 10: “The Worst Word There Is”

1
. John Austin,
How to Do Things with Words
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1975), 12.

2
. Sarah Forman, “Yikes! . . . Yale Edition,”
Yale Daily Herald Blog
, October 24, 2010, blogdailyherald.com/tag/yale/.

3
. H. Yoon and others, “Effects of Stress on Female Rat Sexual Function,”
International Journal of Impotence Research: Journal of Sexual Medicine
17 (2005): 33–38.

4
. Ibid.

5
. Ibid.

6
. Ibid.

7
. Ibid.

8
. Ibid.

9
. See Kate Millett,
The Prostitution Papers: A Candid Dialogue
(New York: Avon Books, 1973).

10
. Matthew Hunt, “Cunt: The History of the C-Word” (PhD), abstract, www.matthewhunt.com/cunt/abstract.html; see also www.matthewhunt.com/cunt/references.html.

11
. Ibid. See also encyclopedia.jrank.org/articles/pages/657/Cunt.html for an additional history of the word
cunt.

12
. Hunt, “Cunt.”

13
. Ibid.

14
. Christina Caldwell, “The C-Word: How One Four-Letter Word Holds So Much Power,”
College Times,
March 15, 2011.

15
. Cited in Hunt, “Cunt.” www.matthewhunt.com/cunt/abstract.html; see also www.matthewhunt.com/cunt/references.html.

16
. Ibid. www.matthewhunt.com/cunt/abstract.html; see also www.matthewhunt.com/cunt/references.html.

17
. Ibid. www.matthewhunt.com/cunt/abstract.html; see also www.matthewhunt.com/cunt/references.html.

18
. See Gordon Rattray Taylor,
Sex in History
(New York: Vanguard Press, 1954).

19
. Russell Ash, cited in Hunt, “Cunt,” www.matthewhunt.com/cunt/abstract.html; see also www.matthewhunt.com/cunt/references.html.

20
. “Egypt Bans Forced Virginity Tests by Military,”
Al Jazeera
, December 27, 2011, www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2011/12/20111227132624606116.html.

21
. Vanessa Thorpe and Richard Rogers, “Women Bloggers Call for a Stop to ‘Hateful’ Trolling by Misogynist Men,”
The Observer,
November 5, 2011. www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/Nov/05/women-bloggers-hateful-trolling.

Chapter 11: How Funny Was That?

1
. Richard E. Nisbett
, The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently . . . And Why
(New York: Free Press, 2003), cited in Marcia Beauchamp, “Somasophy: The Relevance of Somatics to the Cultivation of Female Subjectivity” (PhD diss., California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, 2011), 301–3.

2
. Douglas Wile,
Art of the Bedchamber: The Chinese Sexual Yoga Classics, Including Women’s Solo Meditation Texts
(Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1992), 9.