Vagina: A New Biography Book

An astonishing work that radically reframes how we think about, talk about and understand the vagina - and consequently, how we understand women - from Naomi Wolf, one of our most respected cultural critics and thinkers, author of the modern classic, The Beauty Myth. A medical crisis resulted in sending Naomi Wolf on an unexpected journey - to tease out the link between sexuality and creativity.She discovered, much to her own astonishment, an increasing body of scientific evidence that suggests that the vagina has a fundamental connection to female consciousness. Exhilarated and emboldened by these new discoveries, she considers what a sexual relationship - and a relationship to the self - transformed by these insights could look like. And explores what women really need. Vagina: a New Biography combines rigorous science explained for lay readers, with cultural history and deeply felt considerations of the role of female desire in female identity, creativity and confidence. Provocative and engaging, positive and inspiring this book, about female impulses, history and dreams goes to the very core of what it means to be a woman.

* Naomi Wolf is back. With a book that should be as exciting, dramatic and controversial as the Beauty Myth