TY - BOOK AU - Wolf,Naomi TI - Vagina: a new biography SN - 0061989169 AV - HQ1421 .W6512 2012 U1 - 305.42 23 PY - 2012///] CY - New York, NY. PB - Ecco KW - Wolf, Naomi. KW - Femininity KW - United States KW - Women KW - Sexual behavior KW - Vagina N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-365) and index; One; Does the vagina have a consciousness? --; 1; t Meet your incredible pelvic nerve --; 2; Your dreamy autonomic nervous system --; 3; Confidence, creativity, and the sense of interconnectedness --; 4; Dopamine, opioids, and oxytocin --; 5; What we 'know' about female sexuality is out of date --; Two; History : conquest and control --; 6; The traumatized vagina --; 7; The vagina began as sacred --; 8; The Victorian vagina : medicalization and subjugation --; 9; Modernism : the 'liberated' vagina --; Three; Who names the vagina? --; 10; The worst word there is? --; 11; How funny was that? --; 12; The pornographic vagina --; Four; The goddess array --; 13; The beloved is me --; 14; Radical pleasure, radical awakening : the vagina as liberator N2 - "When an unexpected medical crisis sends [the author] on a deeply personal journey to tease out the intersections between sexuality and creativity, she discovers, much to her own astonishment, an increasing body of scientific evidence that suggests that the vagina is not merely flesh, but an intrinsic component of the female brain--and thus has a fundamental connection to female consciousness itself."--Dust jacket UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1304/2012454997-b.html ER -