Woman: An intimate geography - Natalie Angier

Woman: An intimate geography - Natalie Angier Woman explores the essence of what it means to be female. In mapping the inner woman - from organs to orgasms-Natalie Angier presents an extraordinary new vision of the female body as an evolutionary masterpiece. "Women have long been regarded as slaves to biology and evolution, prisoners in a hormonal swamp. But now, some of the sacred tenets of evolutionary psychology - that men are innately more aggressive, more promiscuous and more likely to fall for cute young things - have come under fresh challenge. As the century turns, it could be Goodbye women's lib; hello fernale liberation!... Woman is a delicious cocktail of estrogen and amphetamine designed to pump up the ovaries as well as the cerebral cortex' Barbara Ehrenreich, Time Magazine 'A glorious, fascinating encyclopaedic look at the wonder of the female body. Drawing on science, literature and history, Angier provides valuable insight into the power of hormones, breast milk and the all-important clitoris. A must for every woman's bookshelf Woman's Journal 'Allows us to be delighted with ourselves, and gives us a sense of our innate strength and capacity for permanent revolution. The most radical work of feminism for a decade Geraldine Bedell, Sunday Express "How did we ever get by without it? This book explains your life Fay Weldon Name written in front Contains foxing Further good condition

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