Vagina
A New Biography
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4.0 • 19 Ratings
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Publisher Description
An astonishing new work that radically changes how we think about, talk about and understand the vagina - and consequently how we think about women and sexuality - from Naomi Wolf, one of our most respected cultural critics and author of the modern classic, The Beauty Myth.
As Naomi Wolf embarks on a life-changing journey to tease out the link between sexuality and creativity, what she discovers is revelatory and exhilarating - a scientifically supported link between the vagina and female courage, assertiveness and consciousness itself. Emboldened by these new discoveries she looks back in history and show us how the vagina was considered sacred for centuries until it began to be cast as a threat. Even now in an increasingly sexualised world, it is thought of as slightly shameful. Why?
Vagina: A New Biography combines cutting-edge science with cultural history to explore the role of female desire and how it affects female identity, creativity and confidence. Provocative and engaging, positive and inspiring, this book brings to light female impulses, history and dreams - and, in exploring what women really need - it goes to the very core of what it means to be female.
For any woman who wants to understand her body and her mind and the culture that defines her - Vagina is essential reading.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The latest from bestselling feminist author Wolf (The Beauty Myth) begins with her "traumatic loss" of the "experience of sex as being incredibly emotionally meaningful." Although still orgasmic, the depressed Wolf reaches out to her gynecologist, who diagnoses her with an injured pelvic nerve. Corrective surgery, which includes having a 17-inch metal plate implanted in her back, happily restores her ecstatic orgasms and creative powers, and inspires this investigation. Defining the vagina as "the entire female sex organ, from labia to clitoris to cervix," Wolf investigates the science of female sexuality, including new findings showing a powerful connection between the vagina and brain. Citing history, science, Tantra, and her own online questionnaires, Wolf concludes that the vagina is "the delivery system for the states of mind that we call confidence, liberation, self-realization, and even mysticism in women." Neither scientist, sociologist, sex-educator, physiologist, nor psychologist herself, reporter Wolf draws liberally and uncritically from work in those fields. Her study of Western science is amplified by her own startling "Tantric explorations." She offers "points of exploration" for pleasuring a woman, which she calls the "Goddess Array," a series of surprisingly mundane suggestions: bring her flowers; dim the lights; relax her; hug her; cuddle her; take her slow dancing. Her last words call up the chant of teenage girls, at a high school assembly in Manhattan: " Vagina vagina vagina.' " Indeed.
Customer Reviews
iStore Censorship!
Have the iStore read the review they supply with this book. If it has radically changed the way we talk about something 3 billion people on the planet have why is it that we can't even see the medical term for it in print?
Is V still censored of you buy the book?
Would be grateful if someone could let me know.
Eye opening
I have just finished reading this book! It has explained to me a lot about myself and why I react in certain ways to certain things. I also feel this is the beginning of my journey to becoming a happy woman. I love the scientific nature of this book but it is also a very spiritual book. I love it and I am excited for myself!