A Vagina of One's Own by Vagina Wolf

I like this title so much I have to write a post to go with it.

Naomi Wolf's Vagina: A New Biography has been panned by Zoe Heller,  Laurie Penny, Katie Roiphe, Suzanne Moore and Neuroskeptic (a neuro-scientist who questions Wolf's science bits).  (Entertaining quote mine here.)  The book outlines Wolf's quest for the transcendental orgasm that she had mislaid somewhere. Suzanne Moore describes it as a "self-help" book.  So I've decided not to read it - it sounds very American and earnest, and as for searching for the transcendental orgasm, I have trouble enough locating my keys and spare pair of specs.  As for the power of the vagina that she extolls, mine won't even charge up my moby.  Laurie Penny groans, "Has feminism come to this?" Quite.

Putting "Vagina" in a title does make a book sound more exciting and feministy, so I am jazzing up titles of books I'm reading, or have read recently:-

The Curious Incident of the Vagina in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
In the Shadow of the Vagina by Tom Holland
Vagina's End by Ford Madox Ford
Letters to Vagina by Philip Larkin
We Need to Talk about My Vagina by Lionel Shriver
The Lonely Planet Guide to the Vagina
A Vagina for Mr Biswas by V S Naipaul
The Vagina of a Provincial Lady by E M Delafield
Changing My Vagina: Occasional Essays by Zadie Smith
The Vagina Stain by Philip Roth
The Odd Vaginas by George Gissing

This heavy solemnity about sex - Wolf, it seems,  thinks her vagina is a "goddess" and  chaps should cover you with rose petals before you go transcendental on them - does bring out the Vagina Wood in me.

 

Update:- commenters came up with more suggestions for vajazzled titles here.

Comments

[sackcloth and ashes]

In the category of reviews that are more interesting than the book concerned, here's a piece on a tome called 'See You Next Tuesday', published back in 2005.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/4198050/Vagina-monologue-from-Down-Under.html

[Lamia]

Very good.

" so I am jazzing up titles of books I'm reading,"

Shouldn't that be 'vajazzling up'?

Sorry.

[Rosie]

"Vajazzle" would be better but I have never heard of it until just now - I had to look it up. My spell checker doesn't know it either - it's as unhip as I am (it doesn't know "unhip" for instance).