Word: womb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BOOK is divided into four parts- Body. Soul, Love and Hate -and a totally inadequate coda: Revolution. Body ("Gender," "Bones," "Curves," "Hair," "Sex," "The Wicked Womb")-is the best section of the four. In it Greer levels some good criticism at those propounding the myth of the vaginal orgasm. "The implication that there is a statistically ideal fuck which will always result in satisfaction if the right procedures are followed is depressing and misleading.... Real satisfaction is not enshrined in a tiny cluster of nerves but in the sexual involvement of the whole person." Recent emotionless emphasis on the clitoral...
...After reading your article on "The New Room: No Furniture" [April 26], I believe the time is not too distant when whole populations will be living in "liberating cubes," which to me smacks of re-entry into the womb, and a sterile one at that. How sad that man has literally progressed himself back into a cavelike dwelling. Happily, plastic and light bulbs have replaced rock and sunlight-to the everlasting joy of gnomes, no doubt...
...Class Womb...
Even if the classroom-or "class womb" -were extended to include the whole society, education would not be improved, he argued, because licensed teachers would still be determining its content and students would continue to consume it as a commodity...
...stuff hardens into a tough, mildew-proof mass with planned recesses and protrusions that take the place of furniture. The corners of windows are filled in, leaving a rounded opening, and the sills are comfortably padded. The total effect, say those who live in the caves, is like a womb with a view...