Woman

An Intimate Geography

Natalie Angier

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Year: 1999
• ISBN:
  9780547344997
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: General Health

National Book Award Finalist: This look at the science of the female body is "a tour de force...wonderful, entertaining and informative" ( The New York Times Book Review ). From a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who covers science for the New York Times, Woman is an essential guide to everything from organs to orgasms and hormones to hysterectomies. With her characteristic clarity and insight, Natalie Angier cuts through still-prevalent myths and misinformation surrounding the female body, the most enigmatic of evolutionary masterpieces. In addition to earning a nomination for the National Book Award, Woman was named one of the best books of the year by NPR, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and People, among others. "One knows early on one is reading a classic—a text so necessary and abundant and true that all efforts of its kind, for decades before and after it, will be measured by it." — Los Angeles Times "Ultimately, this grand tour of the female body provides a new vision of the role of women in the history of our species." — The Washington Post

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Preface
• Introduction
• Unscrambling the Egg
• The Mosaic Imagination
• Default Line
• The Well-Tempered Clavier
• Suckers and Horns
• Mass Hysteria
• Circular Reasonings
• Holy Water
• A Gray and Yellow Basket
• Greasing the Wheels
• Venus in Furs
• Mindful Menopause
• There’s No Place Like Notoriety
• Wolf Whistles and Hyena Smiles
• Spiking the Punch
• Cheap Meat
• Labor of Love
• Of Hoggamus and Hogwash
• A Skeptic in Paradise
• APPENDIX
• Biologically Correct
• The Scientific Method: “Do Straw Men Have DNA?”
• Opposites Attract? Not in Real Life
• Skipping Spouse to Spouse Isn’t Just a Man’s Game
• References
• Acknowledgments
• Index
• About the Author
• Footnotes