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100 1 _aWolf, Naomi.
245 1 0 _aVagina :
_ba new biography /
_cNaomi Wolf.
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aNew York, NY. :
_bEcco,
_cc2012.
300 _axii, 381 p., [8] p. of plates :
_bill. ;
_c24 cm
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [335]-365) and index.
505 0 _aDoes 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and the sense of interconnectedness ; Dopamine, opioids, and oxytocin ; What we "know" about female sexuality is out of date -- History : conquest and control.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.
520 _a"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.
600 1 0 _aWolf, Naomi.
650 0 _aFemininity
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aWomen
_xSexual behavior
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aVagina.
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