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There are a few excellent books that celebrate,
display, describe and discuss the glorious yOni. We review them
here and are delighted to be able to offer them for sale through
the yOni bookstore.
"Femalia" edited by Joani Blank
"Outstanding! I thought the book was a triumph of the female anatomy.
Never before have I experienced the grandness of the female
genitalia without the "dirtiness" of porn connotation. Great
work, Joani! As a photographer myself, what I wouldn't give to be
a part of a project that educates women with their own bodies."
"You will find these images some of the most beautiful you've ever
seen, or be shocked by them. This book is a magic mirror letting
you know exactly how you feel about female genitalia. It's a perfect
coffee table book." Annie Sprinkle
"The Vagina
Monologues" by Eve Ensler
"Down there?" says a composite character in "The Vagina Monologues,"
Eve Ensler's outrageous, engaging book based on her award-winning
play of the same title. "I haven't been down there since 1953. No,
it had nothing to do with [American President] Eisenhower."
Ensler, an American playwright and performance artist, wrote this
series of hilarious, disturbing soliloquies to elevate and celebrate
the vagina, a much mumbled-about, seldom-discussed body part that
gets more derision than respect. Drawing on interviews with hundreds
of women ages 6 to 76, she channels the cultural squeamishness that
allows us to unflinchingly label arms and legs, but compels us to
sink to a shamed whisper in the next breath.
Yet who should we blame for this? The very sound of the word, not
just its meaning, works against it. Vagina, muses Ensler, sounds
like "an infection at best, maybe a medical instrument: 'Hurry,
Nurse, bring me the Vagina.'" In nimble efforts to get around this
coldly clinical word, women--as well as men and, certainly, children--have
lobbed some incredible euphemisms into play: "poopelu," "monkey
box," "tamale," "split knish," "choochi snorcher," "Gladys Siegelman"--"Gladys
Siegelman?"--and, of course, the old standby "down there."
Ensler swings from silly questions ("If your vagina got dressed,
what would it wear?") to serious statements. One of the most powerful
monologues in the book is a string of jagged, contrapuntal verses
stitched together from the memories of a Bosnian woman raped by
soldiers. Other pieces treat their subject with fear, loathing,
amazement, stunned pleasure, or loving, often embarrassing detail.
A book so intimate is bound to win enemies as well as friends.
At times its wordplay is self-important and strident, and its journey
echoes an earnest brand of feminist consciousness-raising that virtually
lampoons itself. Yet Ensler's fervent mission doesn't deserve to
be discounted. "Here's the place to release the myths, shame, and
fear," she says. Though offensive to some, the tiny word she wields
is marvelously freeing to others. By saying "vagina" over and over
in these performance pieces, ignoring embarrassment and deflecting
fury, she aims to smash the invisible wall separating women from
what she eloquently terms their motors, their centers, their second
hearts.
Review by Francesca Coltrera
The Yoni : Sacred Symbol of Female Creative
Power
by Rufus C. Camphausen
Rufus Campenhausen traces the yOni motif from its first occurrence
almost 30,000 years ago in Europe to its remains in today's cultures.
From Tantric practices and yOni manifestations in nature and human
endeavors to Eastern mythology, it packs in details about yOni art
and spiritual sources.
For
these and a selection of other excellent books
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