TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wolf,Naomi
TI  - Vagina: a new biography 
SN  - 9780061989162
AV  - HQ1421 .W6512 2012
U1  - 305.42 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York, NY.
PB  - Ecco
KW  - Wolf, Naomi.
KW  - Femininity
KW  - United States
KW  - Women
KW  - Sexual behavior
KW  - Vagina
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-365) and index; 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and the sense of interconnectedness ; Dopamine, opioids, and oxytocin ; What we "know" about female sexuality is out of date -- History : conquest and control.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
N2  - "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."--Dust jacket
ER  -