Research Catalog

Title

Vagina : a new biography / by Naomi Wolf.

Author

Wolf, Naomi

Publication

London : Virago, 2012.

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Details

Description

xii, 400 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

The embarrassment and alienation we often feel when the word 'vagina' comes up in conversation is fairly new. In this book, Naomi Wolf explains why the vagina deserves an understanding of its own cultural lineage and ancestry because, what is true of the female body in general, is more true of the vagina than of any other feminine aspect.

Subject

• Wolf, Naomi
• 1900-1999
• Vagina
• Women > Sexual behavior
• Sex customs

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-380) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Does the vagina have a consciousness? 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and the sense of interconnectedness ; Dopamine, opioids, and oxytocin ; What we "know" about female sexuality is out of date -- History : conquest and control. The traumatized vagina ; The vagina began as sacred ; The Victorian vagina : medicalization and subjugation ; Modernism : the "liberated" vagina -- Who names the vagina? "The worst word there is? ' How funny was that? ; The pornographic vagina -- The goddess array. "The beloved is me" ; Radical pleasure, radical awakening : the vagina as liberator -- Reclaiming the goddess.

ISBN

• 9781844086887 (pbk)
• 1844086887 (pbk)

OCLC

• 809871318
• SCSB-12728789

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library