Woman : an intimate geography / Natalie Angier
- Bib ID:
- 43278
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- Author:
- Angier, Natalie
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- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1999
- xvi, 398 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0395691303
- Summary:
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Natalie Angier lifts the veil of secrecy from that most enigmatic of evolutionary masterpieces, the female body, exploring the essence of what it means to be a woman. Angier takes on everything from organs (breasts "are funny things, really, and we should learn to laugh at them") to orgasm (happily for women, the clitoris has 8,000 nerve fibers, twice the number in the penis). Also delving into topics such as exercise and menopause, female aggression and evolutionary psychologists' faddish views of "female nature," she creates a joyful, fresh vision of womanhood.
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- Introduction: Into the Light
- 1. Unscrambling the Egg: It Begins with One Perfect Solar Cell
- 2. The Mosaic Imagination: Understanding the "Female" Chromosome
- 3. Default Line: Is the Female Body a Passive Construct?
- 4. The Well-Tempered Clavier: On the Evolution of the Clitoris
- 5. Suckers and Horns: The Prodigal Uterus
- 6. Mass Hysteria: Losing the Uterus
- 7. Circular Reasonings: The Story of the Breast
- 8. Holy Water: Breast Milk
- 9. A Gray and Yellow Basket: The Bounteous Ovary
- 10. Greasing the Wheels: A Brief History of Hormones
- 11. Venus in Furs: Estrogen and Desire
- 12. Mindful Menopause: Can We Live Without Estrogen?
- 13. There's No Place Like Notoriety: Mothers, Grandmothers, and Other Great Dames
- 14. Wolf Whistles and Hyena Smiles: Testosterone and Women
- 15. Spiking the Punch: In Defense of Female Aggression
- 16. Cheap Meat: Learning to Make a Muscle
- 17. Labor of Love: The Chemistry of Human Bondage.
- 18. Of Hoggamus and Hogwash: Putting Evolutionary Psychology on the Couch
- 19. A Skeptic in Paradise: A Call for Revolutionary Psychology.
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- "A Peter Davison book."
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-382) and index.
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