Vagina: Revised and Updated
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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Vagina: Revised and Updated
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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Vagina: Revised and Updated

Vagina: Revised and Updated

by Naomi Wolf
Vagina: Revised and Updated

Vagina: Revised and Updated

by Naomi Wolf

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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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780061989179
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 12/10/2013
Pages: 416
Sales rank: 629,889
Product dimensions: 5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Naomi Wolf is the author of seven books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Beauty Myth, Promiscuities, Misconceptions, The End of America, and Give Me Liberty. She writes for the New Republic, Time, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Huffington Post, Al Jazeera, La Repubblica, and the Sunday Times (London), among many other publications. She lives with her family in New York City.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction 1

1 Does the Vagina Affect Consciousness?

1 Your Incredible Pelvic Nerve 9

2 Your Dreamy Autonomic Nervous System 23

3 Confidence, Creativity, and the Sense of Interconnectedness 39

4 Dopamine, Opioids/Endorphins, and Oxytocin 53

5 What We "Know" About Female Sexuality Is Out of Date 75

2 History: Conquest and Control

6 The Traumatized Vagina 87

7 The Vagina Began as Sacred 127

8 The Victorian Vagina: Medicalization and Subjugation 143

9 Modernism: The "Liberated" Vagina 161

3 Who Names the Vagina?

10 "The Worst Word There Is" 189

11 How Funny Was That? 205

12 The Pornographic Vagina 217

4 The Goddess Array

13 The Beloved Is Me" 239

14 Radical Pleasure, Radical Awakening: The Vagina as Liberator 273

Conclusion: Reclaiming the Goddess 335

Readers Respond to Vagina 341

Notes 345

Selected Bibliography 371

Index 379

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