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Summary: Enpowering and wonderful
Review: This is the most empowering book i've ever read. As a feminist, lesbian, and avid reader/student of women's studies, i have to say that this is the best book i've read all year. Inga Muscio talks about female anatomy, rape, abortion, orgasms, menstruation, and prostitution. While i didn't agree with EVERY point she made, i was shown an itelligent point of view that made me think of things i had never thought of before. She made me feel even PROUDER to be a woman. I have purchased copies of this book for my girlfriend and another female friend, and i intend on buying a copy for my mother. I wish i could give this books to everyone that has ever meant anything to me, male and female, to share her beautiful points of view. She embraces life, praises women, and entertains all at the same time. I recommend this book to everyone for an education and a new appreciation for women and for life. I recommend this book HIGHLY, and you'll want 3 copies (one for yourself, one for your best friend, and one for your mother/sister!) ENJOY!
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Summary: Everyone should read it.
Review: If I could afford it, I'd buy this book for every one of my students. Male and female. If they love it, great. If they don't they need to figure out why they don't.
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Summary: It isn't women who regard their sexual organs...
Review: ...as the sum total of who they are. It's the patriarchal male society that has assigned that role for them, and brainwashed everyone over the past few millennia that *this* is the way things should be. All you have to do is look at the toys we give our children to see what we want them to regard as "important". Inevitably, every little girl in America is given a Barbie doll to hold as an icon of idealized beauty and glamour that she must achieve, eventually to please males. This book is a superb body of work that opens our eyes to the ignored obvious.
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Summary: Happy Cuntlovin'
Review: When my friend called me and began to read this book over the phone, I knew that I had to have it. I don't consider myself a feminist and you really don't have to be to enjoy the book. Not only does Inga encourage you to create a sisterhood, she also gives some healthy alternatives to products of the "male social power structure." I felt heartened by this book because this woman is so in touch with the goddess and learning to love yourself rather than living in a society that teaches us to hate all things womanly. Say hello to the moon and get on with all that is cuntloving.
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Summary: Are we just walking vaginas?
Review: Should we really make our reproductive organs the core of our identities? When you exaggerate the importance of gender in your identity as a person, don't be surprised if other people start using your gender (and perceived "inferior" traits in your gender) as an excuse for discrimination. We would all be much better off if we were realistic in our assessment of gender: It's just one trait among many that we were all randomly assigned by our genetic code. Yes, "cunt" is an offensive term, but I can also think of plenty of offensive slang words for the male anatomy. We don't see men trying to "reclaim" those phrases though, do we? I am reminded of something I once read by a student of philosophy and math named Brenda Fine: "It's somewhat ironic that the group that once called itself feminist and gave me the opportunity to distinguish myself as an individual, has evolved into a group by the same name that is so wrapped up in my gender that try as I might to distinguish myself as an individual, I'll forever be hailed as a female first, and accomplisher second - or not at all. Men are mathematicians; women are female mathematicians. Emphasis, of course, on the 'female'; the proofs we write are to be discussed only after we serve our primary function: ambassadors for the gender."
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Summary: Surpassed all my expectations
Review: Sick of academic feminism, I really thought this book was going to be a slipshod piece of etymological scholarship. I picked it up to laugh at it. Imagine my shock when it turned out to be a smart, feisty, personable, positive, constructive, angry, liberating book - oh yeah, and fun. The sheer pleasure Musico finds in life and words is exhilarating. Reading her book is like talking to your best friend - she's stubborn, kind of crazy, and I still don't agree with all her politics, but it's damned hard not to like her or to respect where she's coming from. Also, she has some sound, specific, and clearly stated advice on how to keep from being raped/mugged - that alone is probably enough to make the book worth reading. I do think the majority of college-educated, pro-choice American women will get a kick out of this, if they can get past the embarassing cover (buying this book felt very much like buying a box of tampons - this is fallout from the author's relentlessly sex-positive attitudes). However, extreme feminists will probably find it overly personal, insufficiently rigorous, and too focused on the lives of women of the demographic I mentioned above.
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Summary: Okay for beginners
Review: Cunt works best for people who are interested in feminism but are not quite sure of their place in it. Cunt's best contribution is Muscio's look at menstruation, abortion and the shame attached to them. However, her conclusion that "people with cunts need to protect each other" reeks of simplistic 1970's feminism and she does not adequately examine the way race, class, ability and sexual orientation determine the way women are oppressed by sexism and their reaction to it. If you are looking for an easily accessible, simplistic treatise on sexism, cunt may be the book for you. For a more sophisticated analysis of the connections between oppressions, I would advise you to look elsewhere.
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Summary: Cunt!
Review: Awesome! Inga Musico has written an incredibley empowering book about being female! This should be on every woman's reading list. Hell, this book should be every woman's personal manifesto. There were a few points that bothered me - the ease with which she seemed to discuss her abortions - but overall it was a very funny, tar-jerking, informative, STRONG book. For very STRONG women. :)
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Summary: I could not put this book down
Review: I was given this book as a graduation present. I have to say the thing that I like about it most was that it does not really relate intellectually, it really makes you think about yourself and not so much about other people. All the stories were interesting. There were some views I personally did not agree with, but I really love the idea that women should love every aspect of themselves. This is not really a manhatting book at all, it's about women bettering themselves for the good of themselves.
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Summary: Simply the best book I've ever read
Review: I loved this book so much I wrote to the author and received an autographed copy. I have been passing it around to my friends to read and become empowered. My fiance is reading it now and he can't put it down. It is simply the finest piece of feminist lit. ever--I wish I could give it 10 stars.
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