Vagina: A Cultural HistoryOne 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. |
Contents
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What We Know About Female Sexuality Is Out of Date | |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 Worst Word There Is | |
How Funny Was That? | |
The Pornographic Vagina | |
The Beloved Is Me | |
Radical Pleasure Radical Awakening The Vagina as Liberator | |
Reclaiming the Goddess | |
Selected Bibliography | |
Photographic Insert | |
The Victorian Vagina Medicalization and Subjugation | |
Modernism The Liberated Vagina | |
Acknowledgments | |
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