I Have Devoted My Life To the Clitoris by Elizabeth Hall

I Have Devoted My Life To the Clitoris

Elizabeth Hall

Elizabeth Hall began writing I Have Devoted My Life to the Clitoris in the summer of 2010 after reading Thomas Laqueur’s Making Sex. She was particularly struck by Laqueur’s bold assertion: “More words have been shed, I suspect, about the clitoris, than about any other organ, or at least, any organ its size.” How was it possible that Hall had been reading compulsively for years and never once stumbled upon this trove of prose devoted to the clit? If Lacquer’s claim was correct, where were all these “words”? And more: what did size have to do with it? Hall set out to find all that had been written about the clit past and present. As she soon discovered, the history of the clitoris is no ordinary tale; rather, its history is marked by the act of forgetting.

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Genre Non-Fiction
Format Paperback
No. of Pages 98
Notes Lambda Literary Award Finalist, Bisexual Nonfiction
Language English
Rating Good
Cover Artist Kenyatta a.C. Hinkle
BookID 5707

Author: LFWBooks