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An edition of Woman (1999)

Woman

an intimate geography

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The author explores the essence of what it means to be a woman--in body and mind--as she shares her thoughts on everything from organs to orgasm and menopause.

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Mariner Books/Houghton Miffin Harcourt
Language
English
Pages
478

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Subjects

Women, Sex differences, Psychology, Physiology, Women, psychology

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Cover of: Woman
Woman: An Intimate Geography
2014, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
in English
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Cover of: Woman
Woman: an intimate geography
2014, Mariner Books/Houghton Miffin Harcourt
in English - Updated ed.
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: Woman
Woman: An Intimate Geography
2014, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: Woman
Woman: An Intimate Geography
1999, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers
in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: Woman
Woman: an Intimate Geography
1999, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers
in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: Woman
Woman: An Intimate Geography
1999, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: Woman
Woman: An Intimate Geography
1999, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
in English
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Table of Contents

Introduction : Into the light
Unscrambling the egg : it begins with one perfect solar cell
The mosaic imagination : understanding the "female" chromosome
Default line : is the female body a passive construct?
The well-tempered clavier : on the evolution of the clitoris
Suckers and horns : the prodigal uterus
Mass hysteria : losing the uterus
Circular reasonings : the story of the breast
Holy water : breast milk
A gray and yellow basket : the bounteous ovary
Greasing the wheels : a brief history of hormones
Venus in furs : estrogen and desire
Mindful menopause : can we live without estrogen?
There's no place like notoriety : mothers, grandmothers, and other great dames
Wolf whistles and hyena smiles : testosterone and women
Spiking the punch : in defense of female aggression
Cheap meat : learning to make a muscle
Labor of love : the chemistry of human bondage
Of hoggamus and hogwash : putting evolutionary psychology on the couch
A skeptic in paradise : a call for revolutionary psychology.

Edition Notes

Previous ed.: Houghton Mifflin, 1999.

Various printings.

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Published in
New York
Copyright Date
1999

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
612.6/2
Library of Congress
QP38 .A54 2014, QP38.A54 2014

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxxi, 478 p.
Number of pages
478

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27165704M
Internet Archive
womanintimategeo0000angi_i7g0
ISBN 10
0544228103
ISBN 13
9780544228108
LCCN
2014451690
OCLC/WorldCat
917253388, 854944380

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