Vagina - Softcover

Naomi Wolf

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844086895 ISBN 13: 9781844086894

Publisher: Virago Press, 2013

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date :2013-12-12 Language: English Publisher: Virago Press One of our bestselling 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.

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From the Back Cover:

An astonishing work of cutting–edge science and cultural history from one of our most respected cultural critics and thinkers, Naomi Wolf, author of the modern classic The Beauty Myth

When an unexpected medical crisis sends Naomi Wolf on a journey to tease out the intersections between sexuality and creativity, she discovers—much to her own astonishment—an increasing body of scientific evidence that documents new insights about female sexual response. These breakthrough discoveries show that the vagina, clitoris, and labia—the female sexual centers—are not "merely flesh," but directly affect the female brain, and that the female brain directly affects, in newly documented ways, the vagina and female sexual centers. The vagina thus has a fundamental relationship to female consciousness itself. Utterly enthralling and totally fascinating, Vagina draws on this set of insights about "the mind-vagina connection" to reveal new information about what women really need, on many different levels, and considers what sexual relationships—and a woman's relationship to her self, as well as to her own desire and pleasure—transformed by these insights, may look like.

A brilliant and nuanced synthesis of physiology, history, and cultural criticism, Vagina explores the physical, political, and spiritual implications for women—and for society as a whole—in this startling series of new scientific breakthroughs from a writer whose conviction and keen intelligence have propelled her works to the tops of bestseller lists, and firmly into the realm of modern classics.

About the Author:

Through her four groundbreaking books, Naomi Wolf has given voice to women of all ages, helping reveal the social myths that conspire to keep women struggling against inequality.

About this edition

• Publisher: Virago Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1844086895
• ISBN 13: 9781844086894
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 500