Fruit of Knowledge av Liv Strömquist

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<p><b>''How I loved reading <i>Fruit of Knowledge ... C</i>lever, angry, funny and righteous, also informative to an eye-popping degree''</b> Rachel Cooke, <i>OBSERVER </i>GRAPHIC NOVEL OF THE MONTH<br><br>From Adam and Eve to pussy hats, people have punished, praised, pathologised and politicised vulvas, vaginas, clitorises, and menstruation. In the international bestseller <i>Fruit of Knowledge</i>, celebrated Swedish cartoonist Liv Str¿mquist traces how different cultures and traditions have shaped women''s health and beyond. <br><br>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 Alison Bechdel and Jacky Fleming, she uses the comics medium to reveal uncomfortable truths about how far we haven''t come.<br><br><b>''Just the thing for all the feminists in your l