Vagina obscura : an anatomical voyage
Gross, Rachel E.2022
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The Latin term for the female genitalia, pudendum, means 'parts for which you should be ashamed'. Until 1651, ovaries were called female testicles. The fallopian tubes are named for a man. Named, claimed, and shamed: Welcome to the story of the female body, as penned by men. Today, a new generation of (mostly) women scientists is finally redrawing the map. With modern tools and fresh perspectives, they're looking at the organs traditionally bound up in reproduction - the uterus, ovaries, vagina - and seeing within them a new biology of change and resilience. Through their eyes, journalist Rachel E. Gross takes readers on an anatomical odyssey to the centre of this new world - a world where the uterus regrows itself, ovaries pump out fresh eggs and the clitoris pulses beneath the surface like a shimmering pyramid of nerves.
Main title:
Vagina obscura : an anatomical voyage / Rachel E. Gross ; with illustrations by Armando Veve.
Author:
Gross, Rachel E., authorVeve, Armando, illustrator
Edition:
First edition.
Imprint:
New York : W.W. Norton and Company, [2022]©2022
Collation:
xix, 307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781324006312 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
612.628
Language:
English
BRN:
2537430
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