Owoc poznania

OWOC POZNANIA

Fruit of Knowledge

• Publishing Company:

  TIMOF

• Imprint:

• Format:

  ONE SHOT

• Creator(s):

  LIV STRöMQUIST (ART AND STORY)

  KATARZYNA SYTY (TRANSLATOR)

• Number of Pages:

  144

• Cover price:

  PNL 69.00

• Publication Date:

  May 2023

• Age:

  ADULT

• Fiction/Non-Fiction

  NON-FICTION

• Key words:

  SEX, WOMEN'S ISSUES, FEMINISIM, SEXUALITY,

• Summary:

  From Adam and Eve to pussy hats, people have punished, praised, pathologized, and politicized vulvas, vaginas, clitorises, and menstruation. In this graphic nonfiction book, drawn in chunky, punky pen, Swedish cartoonist Liv Strömquist traces how different cultures and traditions have shaped women’s health and beyond. Her biting, informed commentary and ponytailed avatar guides the reader from the darkest chapters of history (a clitoridectomy performed on a five-year-old American child as late as 1948) to the lightest (vulvas used as architectural details as a symbol of protection). Like humorists Julie Doucet (Dirty Plotte), Alison Bechdel (Dykes to Watch Out For), and Kate Beaton (Hark! A Vagrant), she uses the comics medium to reveal uncomfortable truths about how far we haven’t come.