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Sociology/culture: Vagina: A Re-Education, By Lynn Enright, A&U, €17.25

Vagina: A Re-Education is the first book by Lynn Enright, a journalist and founding member of the recently shuttered women’s website The Pool. It is written in the spirit of that website, delivering an inclusive and thorough feminist take on the history of the vagina in science, education and culture, mixed with passages of personal writing.

The book draws on works of feminist theory ...