| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xii, 381 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [335]-365) and index. |
| Contents |
Part One. 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and the sense of interconnectedness -- Dopamine, opioids, and oxytocin -- What we "know" about female sexuality is out of date -- Part Two. History: conquest and control. The traumatized vagina -- The vagina began as sacred -- The Victorian vagina: medicalization and subjugation -- Modernism: the "liberated" vagina -- Part Three. Who names the vagina? "The worst word there is" -- How funny was that? -- The pornographic vagina -- Part Four. The goddess array. "The beloved is me" -- Radical pleasure, radical awakening: The vagina as liberator -- Conclusion: reclaiming the goddess. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Wolf, Naomi.
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Femininity -- United States.
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Sex role -- Women -- United States.
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| ISBN |
9780061989162 hardback $27.99 |
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0061989169 |
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