{"id":132995,"date":"2020-02-20T14:54:13","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T13:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/02\/20\/vagina-is-not-a-rude-word-the-scientist-fighting-to-empower-women-one-word-at-a-time\/"},"modified":"2020-02-20T14:54:13","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T13:54:13","slug":"vagina-is-not-a-rude-word-the-scientist-fighting-to-empower-women-one-word-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=132995","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Vagina is not a rude word&#039;: the scientist fighting to empower women, one word at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty years ago, Catherine Blackledge\u2019s history of the vagina The Story of V broke boundaries. As it is reissued, she talks about anasryma as activism and why we lie about the clitorisCatherine Blackledge immediately knew what her first book, a cultural history of the vagina spanning more than two millennia, should be called: Vagina. But two decades ago, this decision didn\u2019t go down well.\u201cI\u2019ve always liked the word vagina. I think it sounds regal. But the publishers were having none of it. They were horrified by the idea,\u201d says Blackledge today. \u201cSome of the men in the meeting couldn\u2019t even say the word.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2020\/feb\/20\/vagina-is-not-a-rude-word-catherine-blackledge-raising-the-skirt\" target=\"_blank\">&#039;Vagina is not a rude word&#039;: the scientist fighting to empower women, one word at a time<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty years ago, Catherine Blackledge\u2019s history of the vagina The Story of V broke boundaries. As it is reissued, she talks about anasryma as activism and why we lie about the clitorisCatherine Blackledge immediately knew what her first book, a cultural history of the vagina spanning more than two millennia, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}