Vagina A New Biography

Name: Vagina A New Biography
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ISBN: 9780061989162

ISBN-10: 0061989169

ISBN-13: 9780061989162

Edition: 2012

Authors: Naomi Wolf

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“Blasting away myths is one of Ms. Wolf’s great strengths; she firebombs with knowledge and authority.”—New York Times Book Review One of our best-selling and most respected cultural critics, Naomi Wolf, acclaimed author of The Beauty Myth and The End of America, brings us an astonishing work of cutting-edge science and cultural history that radically reframes how we understand the vagina—and, consequently, how we understand women. A “New Biography,” Vagina is at once serious, provocative, and immensely entertaining—a radical and endlessly fascinating exploration of the gateway to female consciousness from a remarkable writer and thinker at the forefront of the new feminism.

Book details

List price: $27.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 9/11/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.27" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Naomi Wolf was born in 1962 in San Francisco. She studied at Yale before becoming a Rhodes scholar at New College, Oxford, and working in Edinburgh. The Beauty Myth was published in 1990 and was an international bestseller. This was followed by Fire with Fire, Promiscuities, Misconceptions and The Tree House.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Does the Vagina Have a Consciousness?



Meet Tour 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What We "Know" About Female Sexuality Is Out of Date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


Conclusion / Reclaiming the Goddess


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index