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001 2012454997
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005 20121026101504.0
008 121018s2012 nyuaf b 001 0 eng d
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050 00 $aHQ1421$b.W6512 2012
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100 1 $aWolf, Naomi.
245 10 $aVagina :$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and the sense of interconnectedness ; Dopamine, opioids, and oxytocin ; What we "know" about female sexuality is out of date -- History : conquest and control.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 10 $aWolf, Naomi.
650 0 $aFemininity$zUnited States.
650 0 $aWomen$xSexual behavior$zUnited States.
650 0 $aVagina.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1304/2012454997-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1304/2012454997-d.html