Cunt: A Declaration of Independence Expanded and Updated By Inga Muscio

An ancient title of respect for women, the word "cunt" long ago veered off this noble path. Inga Muscio traces the road from honor to expletive, giving women the motivation and tools to claim "cunt" as a positive and powerful force in their lives. With humor and candor, she shares her own history as she explores the cultural forces that influence women's relationships with their bodies.

Sending out a call for every woman to be the Cuntlovin' Ruler of Her Sexual Universe, Muscio stands convention on its head by embracing all things cunt-related.

Cunt: A Declaration of Independence Expanded and Updated By Inga Muscio

Somewhere between Valerie Solanas's bitter SCUM Manifesto and Eve Ensler's fanciful The Vagina Monologues lies Cunt: A Declaration of Independence, an exercise in feminist reclamation. Striving to remove the negative connotations from a word usually used as a scathing insult, Inga Muscio traces the history of the term "cunt" and asserts that it was once a term of respect before the patriarchy turned it into a profane, misogynistic epithet. This transformation, she insists, occurred as part of a conspiracy to make women feel a sense of self-loathing and uncleanness; only by reconnecting with love for their genitalia can women achieve personal and political power.

On responses to her manuscript, Inga Muscio writes, "Reactions to a book called Cunt always lead to an intense grilling. Ain't never encountered ambivalence."

An ancient title of respect for women, the word "cunt" long ago veered off this noble path. Inga Muscio traces the road from honor to expletive, giving women the motivation and tools to claim "cunt" as a positive and powerful force in their lives. In this fully revised edition, she explores, with candidness and humor, such traditional feminist issues as birth control, sexuality, jealousy between women, and prostitution with a fresh attitude for a new generation of women. Sending out a call for every woman to be the Cuntlovin’ Ruler of Her Sexual Universe, Muscio stands convention on its head by embracing all things cunt-related. This edition is fully revised with updated resources, a new foreword from sexual pioneer Betty Dodson, and a new afterword by the author.

"Bright, sharp, empowering, long-lasting, useful, sexy." - San Francisco Chronicle

"Cunt provides fertile ground for psychological growth." - San Francisco Bay Guardian

"Cunt does for feminism what smoothies did for high-fiber diets - it reinvents the oft-indigestible into something sweet and delicious." - Bust Magazine

“Cunt: A Declaration of Independence is a must read for any woman. It goes everywhere from supporting female owned corporations to showing women how they disempower each others and themselves. Most of all it teaches you how to love yourself and the women around you. I'm buying for all of my female relatives for this Christmas! Have fun reading and enjoy!”

“With a foreword by Betty Dodson herself (the goddess of self-love) you know this book is already amazing. I'm only have way through, and I already want to read it again. I recommend Cunt: A Declaration of Independence to all sexes, genders, races and ethnicities who are curious about the remaining contradictions and misconceptions that shadow the female aura of western societies today. It's funny, it's in your face, it's literal and it's true, backed up with facts, stories and history. Great gift idea as well.”

“I'm a 21 year old woman, a history major currently attending a military college with only 10% other women, straight, and a republican. That said, Cunt: A Declaration of Independence book was my introduction into the world of herstory and just being a loving woman (both self and others.) I've always had these ideas hanging in the back of my head, and always been bothered by some blatant inequities, so ingrained in our societal mind that they're apparent even at my school, which does everything it can to ensure our sex does not hinder or help us in relation to the boys. I really enjoyed this new view of my body part which until now, was really just a huge pain, a constant reminder that I wasn't as fast or as strong as the boys, and that simply living entailed so many more risks than they had to take. I wasn't so cool with the section on abortion, but that's the author's choice, I kinda believe that unborn women have rights too. I was amazed at the section on rape-- how it is committed by people with a complete and utter lack of respect, well, I can't paraphase it well, I don't have the book with me right now, but it was an outstanding point. Thank God that we were all born in a time that women can *finally* start expounding on our right to equality and at the same time the blessing we have that we are different than men (but still wonderful!).”

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