Woman: An Intimate Geography (Revised and Updated)

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WOMAN explores the essence of what it means to be female. In mapping the inner woman – from organs to orgasms – Natalie Angier presents an extraordinary new vision of the female body as an evolutionary masterpiece.

”Anyone living in or near a female body should read this book” – Gloria Steinem
”Women have long been regarded as slaves to biology and evolution, prisoners in a hormonal swamp.

But now, some of the sacred tenets of evolutionary psychology…have come under fresh challenge. As the century turns, it could be Goodbye women”s lib; hello female liberation!… WOMAN is a delicious cocktail of estrogen and amphetamine designed to pump up the ovaries as well as the cerebral cortex” – Barbara Ehrenreich, TIME MAGAZINE

”Drawing on science, literature and history, Angier provides valuable insight into the power of hormones, breast milk and the all-important clitoris. A must for every woman”s bookshelf” – WOMAN”S JOURNAL