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Womanhood: The Bare Reality
100 women bare all in an empowering collection of photographs and interviews about Womanhood. Vagina, vulva, lady garden, pussy, beaver, cunt, fanny... whatever you call it most women have no idea what's 'down there'. Culturally and personally, no body part inspires love and hate, fear and lust, worship and desecration in the same way. From smooth Barbie dolls to internet porn, girls and women grow up with a very narrow view of what they should look like, even though in reality there is an enormous range. Womanhood departs from the 'ideal vagina' and presents the gentle un-airbrushed truth, allowing us to understand and celebrate our diversity. For the first time, 100 brave and beautiful women reveal their bodies and stories on their own terms, talking about how they feel about pleasure, sex, pain, trauma, birth, motherhood, menstruation, menopause, gender, sexuality and simply being a woman.
Book Details
- Publisher: Montag & Martin
- Publish Date: Feb 21st, 2019
- Pages: 336
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.40in - 6.70in - 1.10in - 1.70lb
- EAN: 9781780664651
- Categories: • Individual Photographers - Essays• Gender Studies• Women's Studies
About the Author
Laura Dodsworth is a photographer who specialises in projects that explore people: our loves, our lives and our place in the world. Bare Reality was funded on Kickstarter, the online platform for creative projects, in just one day. An exclusive extract from Manhood: The Bare Reality was one of the top ten most-read articles on the Guardian website in 2017, with over 2 million readers. For more information about her work visit barereality.net @BareReality facebook.com/BareReality
Praise for this book
A revelation and celebration of everything being female means.
- Sarah Ditum
Dodsworth's project is a simple but groundbreaking idea that gives women back a sense of ownership over their own bodies.
- The Evening Standard
I have watched toddlers, young children, teenagers and adults alike flick through all of the brilliant books of this series in my house. All have come away with a greater knowledge, respect and fascination with the human body. That said, this is not the main reason I love reading this book -- over and over again! It's not just brilliant because finally, people who read it might be able to breathe out in the knowledge that no, we don't all look the same, and that no, they are not abnormal, asexual or all the other nonsense that comes from lack of access to this sort of photography and literature. I love this book because it's a bloody good read, which just happens to make you feel a weight off your shoulders and a much greater appreciation of your own, and every other human's skin, by the end of it.
- Hollie McNish
The vulva stories Dodsworth has collected made me laugh and cry, moved by the openness with which each person talks about sexual liberation, grief, loss, abuse and everything in between. The very fact that vulvas feel so controversial to look at underlines the power of the project.
- The Guardian
- Sarah Ditum
Dodsworth's project is a simple but groundbreaking idea that gives women back a sense of ownership over their own bodies.
- The Evening Standard
I have watched toddlers, young children, teenagers and adults alike flick through all of the brilliant books of this series in my house. All have come away with a greater knowledge, respect and fascination with the human body. That said, this is not the main reason I love reading this book -- over and over again! It's not just brilliant because finally, people who read it might be able to breathe out in the knowledge that no, we don't all look the same, and that no, they are not abnormal, asexual or all the other nonsense that comes from lack of access to this sort of photography and literature. I love this book because it's a bloody good read, which just happens to make you feel a weight off your shoulders and a much greater appreciation of your own, and every other human's skin, by the end of it.
- Hollie McNish
The vulva stories Dodsworth has collected made me laugh and cry, moved by the openness with which each person talks about sexual liberation, grief, loss, abuse and everything in between. The very fact that vulvas feel so controversial to look at underlines the power of the project.
- The Guardian