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Vagina : a new biography  Cover Image Book Book

Vagina : a new biography / Naomi Wolf.

Wolf, Naomi, (author.).

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  • ISBN: 9780061989162
  • ISBN: 0061989169
  • Physical Description: xii, 381 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Ecco, 2012.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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and the sense of interconnectedness -- Dopamine, opioids, and oxytocin -- What we "know" about female sexuality is out of date -- The traumatized vagina -- The vagina began as sacred -- The Victorian vagina : medicalization and subjugation -- Modernism : the "liberated" vagina -- "The worst word there is?" -- How funny was that? -- The pornographic vagina -- "The beloved is me" -- Radical pleasure, radical awakening : the vagina as liberator -- Conclusion : reclaiming the goddess.
Subject: Wolf, Naomi.
Femininity > United States.
Sex role > Women > United States.

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