Vagina: A New Biography - Couverture souple

Wolf, Naomi

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1844086895 ISBN 13 : 9781844086894

Editeur : Virago, 2013

A propos du livre

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An astonishing work of cutting–edge science and cultural history from one of our most respected cultural critics and thinkers, Naomi Wolf, author of the modern classic The Beauty Myth

When an unexpected medical crisis sends Naomi Wolf on a journey to tease out the intersections between sexuality and creativity, she discovers—much to her own astonishment—an increasing body of scientific evidence that documents new insights about female sexual response. These breakthrough discoveries show that the vagina, clitoris, and labia—the female sexual centers—are not "merely flesh," but directly affect the female brain, and that the female brain directly affects, in newly documented ways, the vagina and female sexual centers. The vagina thus has a fundamental relationship to female consciousness itself. Utterly enthralling and totally fascinating, Vagina draws on this set of insights about "the mind-vagina connection" to reveal new information about what women really need, on many different levels, and considers what sexual relationships—and a woman's relationship to her self, as well as to her own desire and pleasure—transformed by these insights, may look like.

A brilliant and nuanced synthesis of physiology, history, and cultural criticism, Vagina explores the physical, political, and spiritual implications for women—and for society as a whole—in this startling series of new scientific breakthroughs from a writer whose conviction and keen intelligence have propelled her works to the tops of bestseller lists, and firmly into the realm of modern classics.

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`Writing with her signature blend of poetry and polemics, Naomi Wolf delivers a fiercely courageous portrait of female sexuality in the twenty-first century. As usual, Wolf writes what others are afraid to say'

--Susan Cain, author of New York Times bestseller Quiet

'Naomi Wolf has tried hard to look at female sexuality as it really is, not as pop culture or political correctness would like it to be . . .The science of female arousal is complex and woefully neglected, and Wolf has done us all a favour by trying to drag it into the mainstream'
Jemima Lewis, Mail on Sunday

'Wolf's tome could not be better timed . . . at a time when Western women's bodies have never been more highly politicised, the one person who might be able to shine a ray of light . . . has to be Wolf. Perhaps this history will do for twenty-first-century activism what The Beauty Myth did for nineties feminists . . . Wolf is exploring territory we haven't heard about since Germaine Greer in the seventies'
Viv Groskop, Independent on Sunday

'Worth respecting, even celebrating . . . there is [here] a very intriguing thesis about love . . . If you are one of those School of Cosmo feminists who has been arguing for decades that women should be more like men sexually . . . then Wolf's take is genuinely revolutionary'
Sarah Vine, The Times

'Part memoir, part cultural history and part scientific journey around women's sexuality, the best elements of which illuminate how little women generally know about their own anatomy'
Emma Brockes, Guardian

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Virago
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1844086895
• ISBN 13: 9781844086894
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 512