Woman
Subtitle: an intimate geography
By: Natalie Angier
Edition: Updated ed.
Publisher: Mariner Books/Houghton Miffin Harcourt
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 478
ISBN-13: 9780544228108
Copyright date: 1999
Subjects: Women; Sex differences; Psychology; Physiology
Description: The author explores the essence of what it means to be a woman--in body and mind--as she shares her thoughts on everything from organs to orgasm and menopause.
Notes: Previous ed.: Houghton Mifflin, 1999.

Various printings.

Includes bibliographic references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Into the light; title: Unscrambling the egg : it begins with one perfect solar cell; title: The mosaic imagination : understanding the "female" chromosome; title: Default line : is the female body a passive construct?; title: The well-tempered clavier : on the evolution of the clitoris; title: Suckers and horns : the prodigal uterus; title: Mass hysteria : losing the uterus; title: Circular reasonings : the story of the breast; title: Holy water : breast milk; title: A gray and yellow basket : the bounteous ovary; title: Greasing the wheels : a brief history of hormones; title: Venus in furs : estrogen and desire; title: Mindful menopause : can we live without estrogen?; title: There's no place like notoriety : mothers, grandmothers, and other great dames; title: Wolf whistles and hyena smiles : testosterone and women; title: Spiking the punch : in defense of female aggression; title: Cheap meat : learning to make a muscle; title: Labor of love : the chemistry of human bondage; title: Of hoggamus and hogwash : putting evolutionary psychology on the couch; title: A skeptic in paradise : a call for revolutionary psychology.