Woman: An Intimate Geography [Paperback]

National Book Award finalist
ANew York Timesnotable book

"A tour de force, a womderful, entertaining and informative book."—Abraham Verghese,New York Times Book Review

After fifteen years in print,Womanremains an essential guide to everything from organs to orgasms and hormones to hysterectomies. With her characteristic clarity, insight, and sheer exuberance of language, bestselling author Natalie Angier cuts through the still prevalent myths and misinformation surrounding the female body, that most enigmatic of evolutionary masterpieces.Womanis a witty and assured narrative with a reliable grasp of science.

 

...a remarkable document of universal interest.... a tour de force, a wonderful, entertaining and informative book. -- Abraham Verghese

...dazzling.... What you'll see through her eyes will startle and amaze you. -- Marilyn Yalom The New York Times

The revolution already has a manifesto in the form of the ebullient Woman: An Intimate Geography. There are other female-positive books hitting the stores - but it's Angier who most decisively lifts the concept of the human female out of its traditional oxymoronic status. You gotta love a self-described female chauvinist sow who writes like Walt Whitman crossed with Erma Bombeck and depicts the vagina as a Rorschach with legs. Woman is a delicious cocktail of estrogen and amphetamine designed to pump up the ovaries as well as the cerebral cortex. Time Magazine

In Woman, Angier wields her poetic scalpel to explore female biology, and the result is awesome. —Dr. Susan Love, Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book

[Angier] is my kind of feminist. Unlike, say, Catherine MacKinnon, she has a sense of humor about the war between the sexes. ....lƒ]