Woman : an intimate geography / Natalie Angier.
Woman : an intimate geography / Natalie Angier.
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1999.
Date
1999.
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Language
English
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Physical content
xvi, 398 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
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. Sucke...
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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Publisher
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1999.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
1999.
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Summary
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, tw...
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Woman : an intimate geography / Natalie Angier.
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"A Peter Davison book."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-382) and index.
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74VvM0x48ygM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvM0x48ygM
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ISBN
0395691303
9780395691304
DDC
612.62
MMS ID
991007307189702626
