Vagina
Subtitle: a new biography
By: Naomi Wolf
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Ecco
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
ISBN-13: 9780061989162
Subjects: Geschlechtsidentität; Sexual behavior; Psychology; Weiblichkeit; Neurophysiology; Femininity; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General; Vagina; NEW LIST 20120930; Körper; Sexual Behavior; Physiology; Women
Description: "When an unexpected medical crisis sends [the author] on a deeply personal journey to tease out the intersections between sexuality and creativity, she discovers, much to her own astonishment, an increasing body of scientific evidence that suggests that the vagina is not merely flesh, but an intrinsic component of the female brain--and thus has a fundamental connection to female consciousness itself."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-365) and index.
Table of contents: title: Does the vagina have a consciousness? :; title: Meet your incredible pelvic nerve ;; title: Your dreamy autonomic nervous system ;; title: Confidence, creativity, and the sense of interconnectedness ;; title: Dopamine, opioids, and oxytocin ;; title: What we "know" about female sexuality is out of date --; title: History: conquest and control :; title: The traumatized vagina ;; title: The vagina began as sacred ;; title: The Victorian vagina: medicalization and subjugation ;; title: Modernism: the "liberated" vagina --; title: Who names the vagina? -- "The; title: worst word there is? ;; title: How funny was that? ;; title: The pornographic vagina --; title: The goddess array : -- "The; title: beloved is me" ;; title: Radical pleasure, radical awakening: the vagina as liberator --; title: Conclusion: Reclaiming the goddess.