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Vagina: A Cultural History by Wolf, Naomi is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Vagina: A Cultural History about?

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and the sense of interconnectedness ; Dopamine, opioids, and oxytocin ; What we "know" about female sexuality is out of date -- History : conquest and control.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.;"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."--The dust jacket.

Who reads Vagina: A Cultural History?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Wolf, Naomi
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Published
2012
Language
EN
ISBN
9785916713015
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Science, Health & Fitness, Self Help
Rating
3.72 / 5 (1,731 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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