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Vaginal Aesthetics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Joanna Frueh
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Abstract

Based on the premise that ugliness looms large in both cultural and women's consciousness of vaginas, I create a representation of the vagina's beauty as rich and sweet. Smell, taste, and touch play predominant roles as I use scholarly analysis and my own autobiographical narratives and poems and poetic language in order to redress the vagina's culturally inherited ugliness.

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Hypatia , Volume 18 , Issue 4: Special Issue: Women, Art, and Aesthetics , Fall Winter 2003 , pp. 137 - 158
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Copyright © 2003 by Hypatia, Inc.

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