Raising the Skirt: The Unsung Power of the Vagina

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In other contexts, this gesture has an apotropaic character, that is, a means to ward off a supernatural enemy, or it may be a sign of mockery, analogous to mooning. When fertility goddess Demeter wanders the earth refusing food and drink as she mourns the loss of her daughter Persephone (who is imprisoned in the underworld after being abducted by Hades), the land loses its energy source, crops shrivel and famine ensues.

This tradition stretches back, at least, to ancient Egypt, where raising the skirt was an integral part of religious beliefs. All these textbooks should describe the clitoris as a wishbone-shaped structure, consisting of a crown, the piece of flesh that you can feel, a body and two legs which root deep inside and lie either side of the vagina. Raising the Skirt: the Unsung Power of the Vagina begins by celebrating the myriad stories from history, mythology and folklore which tell of the act of anasyrma or ana-suromai – raising the skirt.

Raising the Skirt has been launched in 13 countries and translated into ten different languages: in Poland it is Wagina, in the Czech Republic Vagina; in Finland Vaginan Tarina – Vagina Story and in Spain Historia de la Vagina: un territorio virgin al descubierto – History of the Vagina: a virgin territory uncovered. Or if you are a 21 st century woman using ‘raising the skirt’ as a modern protest gesture, let me know. When finally removing a sideshoot, it’s important not to cut back into the ridge that is formed where it joins the main trunk. I think there’s there’s a moment that every person born with a vagina shares, and that is when you realise that you are treated differently to people who have a penis, that you are not treated with the same level of respect,” she says. Documentation from Johanna Linsley and Rebecca Louise Collins' DIY Stolen Voices can be found on Tumblr.

Sculpted from stone, she lifts her gown with her left hand and with her right holds a dagger above her pubic mound. Raising the Skirt’ has influenced my practice for many years; by questioning notions of beauty and the status of women socially and culturally across many religions, and how this affects how the female body is translated across mass media; I feel it would be an important step back to go forward, to reclaiming the cunt as a powerful tool in assertion. She is also the author of The Man Who Saw the Future: a biography of William Lilly, the story of the world famous seventeenth-century astrologer whose celestial forecasts enthralled the nation and changed the course of the English Civil War, and how the Establishment attempted to silence him and astrology for good (Watkins, 2015). The idea of the vagina as a passive vessel, a simple sheath to surround the penis, is one of science’s greatest misconceptions.constructing a community of courageous and fearless women to join me in the act of ‘Raising the Skirt’ and reclaiming our cunts. Since 1997, Lynn has exhibited and performed extensively in the United States, Singapore, Japan, China, Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia, Cambodia, Australia, New Zealand, UK, France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Poland, Belarus, Czech Republic, Turkey, Greece, Argentina, and Canada.

An inspiration for millennia, the vagina is actually a muscular marvel of engineering - sensitive and strong, fluid and flexible. However, support is needed and awareness must be raised to facilitate this process and to finally empower it. The wind is a friend of fashion photography editorials, but as the following women know, it can also be a formidable foe. Imagine a world where girls and women are told stories fostering a sense of pride and potency in what it means to have a vagina.Cameron Diaz is caught by the wind while filming on the set of ‘Knight and Day’ in Boston, Massachusetts on September 28, 2009 6. RAISING THE SKIRT: THE UNSUNG POWER OF THE VAGINA is my debut book, and was first published in the UK in 2003 as The Story of V. The vagina, we should shout from the roof tops, is a muscular marvel of engineering – sensitive and strong, fluid and flexible. Raising the skirt: the unsung power of the vagina reveals this revolutionary view of female genitalia and points the way to a new understanding of what it means to be female. Just as women throughout history raised the skirt to vanquish those attacking their home, family, community or way of life, twenty-first century women are now using the age-old action for exactly the same reasons.