Vagina : a new biography / Naomi Wolf.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wolf, Naomi

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wolf, Naomi.

Femininity--United States.

Femininity.

Women--Sexual behavior--United States.

Women.

Women--Sexual behavior.

United States.

Physical Description:

xii, 381 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY. : Ecco, [2012]

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."-- From the dust jacket.

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and the sense of interconnectedness ; Dopamine, opioids, and oxytocin ; What we "know" about female sexuality is out of date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.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

9780061989162 :

0061989169

OCLC:

784030622