Woman an intimate geography
The author explores the essence of what it means to be a woman--in body and mind--as she shares her thoughts on everything from organs to orgasm and menopause
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New York
Anchor Books
March 2000
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| Ausgabe: | First Anchor Books edition |
| Schlagworte: |
Women
> Physiology
> Psychology
> Sex differences
> physiology
> psychology
> Sex Characteristics
> Frau
> Physiologie
> Sexualität
> Psychologie
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | The author explores the essence of what it means to be a woman--in body and mind--as she shares her thoughts on everything from organs to orgasm and menopause Introduction: Into the light -- Unscrambling the egg: It begins with one perfect solar cell -- Mosaic imagination: Understanding the "female" chromosome -- Default line: Is the female body a passive construct? -- Well-tempered clavier: On the evolution of the clitoris -- Suckers and horns: Prodigal uterus -- Mass hysteria: Losing the uterus -- Circular reasonings: Story of the breast -- Holy water: Breast milk -- Gray and yellow basket: Bounteous ovary -- Greasing the wheels: Brief history of hormones -- Venus in furs: Estrogen and desire -- Mindful menopause: Can we live without estrogen? -- There's no place like notoriety: Mothers, grandmothers, and other great dames -- Wolf whistles and hyena smiles: Testosterone and women -- Spiking the punch: In defense of female aggression -- Cheap meat: Learning to make a muscle -- Labor of love: Chemistry of human bondage -- Of hoggamus and hogwash: Putting evolutionary psychology on the couch -- Skeptic in paradise: Call for revolutionary psychology |
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| Beschreibung: | Originally published: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1999 Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-419) and index |
| Beschreibung: | xx, 438 Seiten 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 0385498411 0-385-49841-1 9780385498418 978-0-385-49841-8 |