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Vagina

A New Biography
By Naomi Wolf
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Vagina: A New Biography by Naomi Wolf combines cutting-edge science with cultural history to offer a revolutionary exploration of female desire and identity. It challenges existing narratives about women and sexuality, revealing how female impulses shape creativity, confidence, and the core of what it means to be female. This engaging and inspiring work invites women to understand their bodies and minds in the context of culture and history.
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Ideal for women seeking a deeper understanding of their bodies and minds, feminists interested in sexual politics, and readers keen on cultural history and science intersecting with female identity.

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An astonishing new work that radically changes how we think about, talk about and understand the vagina—and consequently how we think about women and sexuality—from Naomi Wolf, one of our most respected cultural critics and author of the modern classic, The Beauty Myth.

Vagina: A New Biography combines cutting-edge science with cultural history to explore the role of female desire and how it affects female identity, creativity, and confidence. Provocative and engaging, positive and inspiring, this book brings to light female impulses, history, and dreams—and, in exploring what women really need—it goes to the very core of what it means to be female.

For any woman who wants to understand her body and her mind and the culture that defines her—Vagina is essential reading.

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Critics praise Wolf's bold and timely examination of female sexuality, noting her success in bringing neglected science into mainstream discussion. The Mail on Sunday commends her nuanced approach, while the Independent on Sunday highlights the book’s potential impact on 21st-century feminism likening it to The Beauty Myth. The Times respects the revolutionary perspective Wolf offers, especially regarding love and sexual identity.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781844086894

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 12 December 2013

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Virago Press Ltd

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 38.0mm

Width: 126.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 400g

Pages: 512

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About the Author

Through her four groundbreaking books, Naomi Wolf has given voice to women of all ages, helping reveal the social myths that conspire to keep women struggling against inequality.

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