Vagina: A New Biography

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Dedication......Page 3 Epigraph......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 Introduction......Page 7 One: Does the Vagina Have a Consciousness?......Page 16 1: Meet Your Incredible Pelvic Nerve......Page 17 2: Your Dreamy Autonomic Nervous System......Page 28 3: Confidence, Creativity, and the Sense of Interconnectedness......Page 39 4: Dopamine, Opioids, and Oxytocin......Page 51 5: What We “Know” About Female Sexuality Is Out of Date......Page 67 Two: History: Conquest and Control......Page 75 6: The Traumatized Vagina......Page 76 7: The Vagina Began as Sacred......Page 108 8: The Victorian Vagina: Medicalization and Subjugation......Page 122 9: Modernism: The “Liberated” Vagina......Page 136 Three: Who Names the Vagina?......Page 158 10: “The Worst Word There Is”......Page 159 11: How Funny Was That?......Page 172 12: The Pornographic Vagina......Page 182 Four: The Goddess Array......Page 198 13: “The Beloved Is Me”......Page 199 14: Radical Pleasure, Radical Awakening: The Vagina as Liberator......Page 226 Conclusion: Reclaiming the Goddess......Page 274 Notes......Page 278 Selected Bibliography......Page 305 Index......Page 310 Photographic Insert......Page 336 Acknowledgments......Page 345 About the Author......Page 347 Also by Naomi Wolf......Page 348 Credits......Page 349 Copyright......Page 350 About the Publisher......Page 351