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A revised and updated anniversary edition of Natalie Angier's bestselling guide to--and celebration of--the female body ¶ National Book Award finalist¶ A New York Times notable book ¶""A tour de force, a wonderful, entertaining and informative book."" --The New York Times Book Review¶ Woman is a fascinating, fact-filled guide that covers everything from organs to orgasms, 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. With a witty and assured narrative, and a reader-friendly dose of science, Woman is an essential and engaging resource for all time.

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.. .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. .... It is the open-mindedness of Woman that is so beguiling. Natalie Angier encourages us to celebrate the diversity of human nature and to realize that the process of cultural evolution is only just beginning. --Erica Jong, The New York Observer O joy, O rapture unforeseen! Natalie Angier's fascinating book about the female body is a hilarious romp through, well, our innards. In a deliciously irreverent, energetic, and clear writing style, she demystifies and de-mythicizes women's anatomy and biological workings. Along the way, Angier leaves no metaphor unexplored....She reveals the mysterious universe of women's bodies for even the most scientifically impaired souls. Like the evolution she describes, Angier is self-selecting in what she writes about, but her passion for what make us gals tick is infectious. Her explanation of chromosomes veritably sings.s

.. .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. .... It is the open-mindedness of Woman that is so beguiling. Natalie Angier encourages us to celebrate the diversity of human nature and to realize that the process of cultural evolution is only just beginning. --Erica Jong, The New York Observer O joy, O rapture unforeseen! Natalie Angier's fascinating book about the female body is a hilarious romp through, well, our innards. In a deliciously irreverent, energetic, and clear writing style, she demystifies and de-mythicizes women's anatomy and biological workings. Along the way, Angier leaves no metaphor unexplored....She reveals the mysterious universe of women's bodies for even the most scientifically impaired souls. Like the evolution she describes, Angier is self-selecting in what she writes about, but her passion for what make us gals tick is infectious. Her explanation of chromosomes veritably si

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NATALIE ANGIER is a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist for the New York Times. She is the author of The Canon, The Beauty of the Beastly, and Natural Obsessions.

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