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outrage with a healthy dose of humour. Ever the cunning linguist, she leaves no pun unmade, but doesnât skimp on the theory either, the perfect antidote for those feminists who find too much of the terminology dry and academic. This may not be the definitive text on the vagina â Rees is clear that
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234:. An enjoyable romp through depictions of female genitalia from oral history to adverts, Rees examines the changing role of the cultural vagina." Welsh found that, "Although Rees is an academic by trade, the book gleefully mixes highbrow and lowbrow, from Chaucer to
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Ribchester, Kim Ross, and Emma L. E. Rees, âExamining the Impact of Pre-induction Social Networking on the Student Transition into Higher Educationâ, Innovations in Education & Teaching International (forthcoming,
406:âNarrating the Victorian Vagina: Charlotte BrontĂ« and the Masturbating Womanâ, in The Female Body in Medicine and Literature, eds Andrew Mangham and Greta Depledge (Liverpool: University of Liverpool Press, 2011).
430:âTriply Bound: Genre and the Exilic Selfâ, in Authorial Conquests: Essays on Genre in the Writings of Margaret Cavendish, ed. by Line Cottegnies and Nancy Weitz (New Jersey: Associated University Press, 2003).
400:âThe âFemale Biographyâ of Dorothy Pakingtonâ, in the Chawton House Library Edition of Mary Haysâs six volume Female Biography (1803), ed. Gina Luria Walker (London: Pickering and Chatto, forthcoming 2014).
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Richard E. Wilson and Emma L. E. Rees, âSometimes a Guitar is Just a Guitar: Freudian
Fetishism in the lyrics of Led Zeppelinâ, in Led Zeppelin and Philosophy, ed. Scott Calef (Chicago: Open Court, 2009).
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get their fair share of attention â but Rees acknowledges the sensationalist desire to talk simply about the part that gets penetrated and the way this obscures women's sexual desire. Would
427:âA Well-Spun Yarn: Margaret Cavendish and Homerâs Penelopeâ, in A Princely Brave Woman: Essays on Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, ed. by Stephen Clucas (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003).
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