Bibliograph

Vagina, a new biography, Naomi Wolf

Type

Label

Vagina, a new biography, Naomi Wolf

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-365) and index

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Vagina

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

784030622

Responsibility statement

Naomi Wolf

Sub title

a new biography

Summary

"When an unexpected medical crisis sends [the author] on a deeply personal journey to tease out the intersections between sexuality and creativity, she discovers, much to her own astonishment, an increasing body of scientific evidence that suggests that the vagina is not merely flesh, but an intrinsic component of the female brain--and thus has a fundamental connection to female consciousness itself."--Dust jacket

Table Of Contents

Does the vagina have a consciousness? Meet your incredible pelvic nerve ; Your dreamy autonomic nervous system ; Confidence, creativity, and the sense of interconnectedness ; Dopamine, opioids, and oxytocin ; What we "know" about female sexuality is out of date -- History : conquest and control. The traumatized vagina ; The vagina began as sacred ; The Victorian vagina : medicalization and subjugation ; Modernism : the "liberated" vagina -- Who names the vagina? "The worst word there is? ' How funny was that? ; The pornographic vagina -- The goddess array. "The beloved is me" ; Radical pleasure, radical awakening : the vagina as liberator -- Reclaiming the goddess

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