Woman An Intimate Geography

Name: Woman An Intimate Geography
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ISBN: 9780385498418

ISBN-10: 0385498411

ISBN-13: 9780385498418

Edition: 2000

Authors: Natalie Angier

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With the clarity, insight, and sheer exuberance of language that make her one of The New York Times's premier stylists, Pulitzer Prize-winner Natalie Angier lifts the veil of secrecy from that most enigmatic of evolutionary masterpieces, the female body. Angier takes readers on a mesmerizing tour of female anatomy and physiology that explores everything from organs to orgasm, and delves into topics such as exercise, menopause, and the mysterious properties of breast milk. A self-proclaimed "scientific fantasia of womanhood." Woman ultimately challenges widely accepted Darwinian-based gender stereotypes. Angier shows how cultural biases have influenced research in evolutionary psychology…

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List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/15/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 4.50" wide x 6.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Michael Pollan is a contributing writer for "The New York Times Magazine" as well as a contributing editor at "Harper's" magazine. He is the author of two prize-winning books: "Second Nature: A Gardener's Education" and "A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder." Pollan lives in Connecticut with his wife and son.Natale Angier is a Pulitzer Prize winning writer for the New York Times and a frequent contributor to many magazines. Her honors include the Lewis Thomas Award and the AAAS Science Journalism Award. Her books include Natural Obsessions: Striving to Unlock the Deepest Secrets of the Cancer Cell and The Beauty of the Beastly: New Views on the Nature of Life. She lives… near Washington D.C.



Introduction: Into the Light



Unscrambling the Egg: It Begins with One Perfect Solar Cell



The Mosaic Imagination: Understanding the "Female" Chromosome



Default Line: Is the Female Body a Passive Construct?



The Well-Tempered Clavier: On the Evolution of the Clitoris



Suckers and Horns: The Prodigal Uterus



Mass Hysteria: Losing the Uterus



Circular Reasonings: The Story of the Breast



Holy Water: Breast Milk



A Gray and Yellow Basket: The Bounteous Ovary



Greasing the Wheels: A Brief History of Hormones



Venus in Furs: Estrogen and Desire



Mindful Menopause: Can We Live Without Estrogen?



There's no Place Like Notoriety: Mothers, Grandmothers, and Other Great Dames



Wolf Whistles and Hyena Smiles: Testosterone and Women



Spiking the Punch: In Defense of Female Aggression



Cheap Meat: Learning to Make a Muscle



Labor of Love: The Chemistry of Human Bondage



Of Hoggamus and Hogwash: Putting Evolutionary Psychology on the Couch



A Skeptic in Paradise: A Call for Revolutionary Psychology


References


Acknowledgments


Index