***Online event - Zoom link will be sent to you on the day of the event***
Cliterature, the Vagina Museum's book club, offers you a generous and satisfying fingering through the feminist pages. We’ll include a mixture of fiction, non-fiction, essays and poetry. Everyone is welcome. Our book club is led by former trustee, Niharika Jain.
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About the book
A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2022: POPULAR SCIENCEAN iNEWS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF 2022A TELEGRAPH BIG IDEAS BOOK 2022 How we interpret emotions and act on them has been heavily gendered, as far back as Ancient Greek and Roman times, and - despite improvements in societal equality - continues to be today. In Hysterical, Dr Pragya Agarwal delves into history and science to determine the truth about our notions of innate differences between the male and female experience of emotions. She examines the impact this has on men and women - especially the role it has played in the subjugation of women throughout history - and imagines how a future where emotions are ungendered might look.
About the author
Pragya Agarwal is a British/Indian writer and academic, and the founder of research think-tank The 50 Percent Project investigating global gender inequalities. She studied in India and UK, and since her PhD has worked as a senior academic in UK, USA, Germany and Australia.
She is currently a visiting professor of social inequities and injustice at Loughborough University and a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Newnham College, University of Cambridge. She is also a visiting scholar at Oxord Centre of Life Writing at Wolfson College, University of Oxford, a Fulbright Fellow at City University of New York, and the Vartan Gregorian Centre for Humanities at New York Public Library.
Where to find the book
Buy the book from our online shop or get your hands on a copy via your local independent bookshop or library as a physical book, e-book or audiobook.
As this is a participatory event by nature, not a performance, anyone who doesn't engage - which can via audio, text, or any method accessible to you - will be automatically removed to ensure safety of all participants. Don’t worry if you’ve not finished the book in time for the session, having read some or most of it will help you take part in our discussion.
Live transcription will be enabled on Zoom for all our events. If you need a transcript after the event, please email us at info@vaginamuseum.co.uk to get a copy.
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