Dr Emma Rees: Vulvanomics: How We Talk About Vaginas
- Date: Wednesday 18 March 2015, 17:00 –
- Location: Social Sciences Building, seminar rooms 12.21 and 12.25
- Type: Seminars
- Cost: Free
Dr Emma Rees will examine the history of advertising and how it has profited from the taboos that still surround women's bodies, in particular the vagina.
Abstract
The seminar will examine the history of advertising and how it has profited from the taboos that still surround women's bodies, in particular the vagina. She will be covering such controversial topics as Female Genital Mutilation and the rise in women undergoing genital cosmetic surgery known as labiaplasty.?
Dr. Emma Rees is Senior Lecturer in English at Chester University and author of 'The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History' (Bloomsbury, 2013).