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    Vagina: Revised and Updated

    By Naomi Wolf

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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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateDec 10, 2013
    ISBN9780062319470
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    Vagina: Revised and Updated
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    Naomi Wolf

    Naomi Wolf is a world-renowned lecturer, women's rights' advocate and author. She has lectured on the themes in her latest book Outrages at the Ashmolean Museum, Balliol College, Mansfield College, and the undergraduates in the Faculty of English Language and Literature, all at the University of Oxford. Wolf was an advisor on women's issues and messaging to both the Clinton reelection campaign and to the Gore 2000 presidential campaign; co-founded the Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership and the American Freedom Campaign; and she is co-founder and CEO of DailyClout.io, a news site and legislative database. Wolf also holds an honorary doctorate from Sweet Briar College and was a Glamour Woman of the Year. For decades, Wolf has broken stories in advance of other news outlets. These range from the silicone breast implant scandal to the Department of Homeland Security coordinated crackdown of Occupy Wall Street (OWS) to menstrual dysregulation following mRNA Covid-19 vaccination. Often initially attacked, later reporting has confirmed her accuracy. Naomi Wolf received a B.A. in English literature from Yale University and D.Phil. in English language and literature from the University of Oxford where she was a Rhodes Scholar at New College She is the author of eight books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Beauty Myth, Vagina: A New Biography, Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries, and The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot. Her many articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Sunday Times (London), The Nation, The New Republic, New York Magazine, The Guardian, and The Huffington Post.

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    • 3/5
      I have mixed feelings about this book. On one hand, I think women and girls should know everything there is to know about their body. I like knowing that there are two different nerve clusters in my vulva. On the other hand, I was confused and annoyed by the terms the author uses. She uses vagina both for the vagina and to mean vulva. She also introduces other terms, such as the "goddess array", and I'm often unsure as to what she is referring to. I also didn't like her section that refers to male and female brains, as if the differences in our brain structures are significant, which they aren't. Nor did I like the reasons she gives for women to be attracted to abusers. It is much more complicated than what she says (that it is natural) and is instead due to the influence of a patriarchal society.She also criticizes radical feminism with what I think was a lack of understanding of it.Overall, I liked this book, but was annoyed with the style and the way she wasn't consistent with terms and often used them incorrectly (vagina is the birth canal, not the entire female genitals!!). I also didn't like her style of writing in this book. I did finda few topics I'd like to explore further. Too bad she didn't explore those in further detail.