From Organs to Orgasm - Believe in Your Powers
Filed in: From Organs to Orgasm
by Natalie Geld
WhyAreWeWhispering.com
With the clarity, insight, and sheer exuberance of language that make her one of The New York Times’ premier stylists, Pulitzer Prize-winner Natalie Angier lifts the veil of secrecy from that most enigmatic of evolutionary masterpieces, the female body.
Woman: An Intimate Geography
Book Excerpts:
“This book is a celebration of the female body – its anatomy, its chemistry, its evolution, and its laughter. It is a personal book, my attempt to find a way to think about the biology of being female without falling into the sludge of biological determinism. It is a book about things that we traditionally associate with the image of woman -- the womb, the egg, the breast, the blood, the almighty clitoris – and things that we don’t – movement, strength, aggression, and fury.”
“I hope simply to show how the body is part of the answer, is a map to meaning and freedom. Mary Carlson, of Harvard Medical School, has coined the term ‘liberation biology’ to describe the use of biological insights to heal our psychic wounds, understand our fears, and make the most of what we have and of those who will have us and love us. It’s a superb phrase. We need liberation, perpetual revolution. What better place to begin the insurrection than at the doors to the palace we’ve lived in all these years?”
-- Angier offers optimistic alternatives and transcends feminist polemics with an enlightened subversiveness that makes for a joyful, fresh vision of womanhood.
-- An essential read for anyone interested in how biology affects who we are – as women, as men, and as human beings.
WhyAreWeWhispering.com
With the clarity, insight, and sheer exuberance of language that make her one of The New York Times’ premier stylists, Pulitzer Prize-winner Natalie Angier lifts the veil of secrecy from that most enigmatic of evolutionary masterpieces, the female body.
Woman: An Intimate Geography
Book Excerpts:
“This book is a celebration of the female body – its anatomy, its chemistry, its evolution, and its laughter. It is a personal book, my attempt to find a way to think about the biology of being female without falling into the sludge of biological determinism. It is a book about things that we traditionally associate with the image of woman -- the womb, the egg, the breast, the blood, the almighty clitoris – and things that we don’t – movement, strength, aggression, and fury.”
“I hope simply to show how the body is part of the answer, is a map to meaning and freedom. Mary Carlson, of Harvard Medical School, has coined the term ‘liberation biology’ to describe the use of biological insights to heal our psychic wounds, understand our fears, and make the most of what we have and of those who will have us and love us. It’s a superb phrase. We need liberation, perpetual revolution. What better place to begin the insurrection than at the doors to the palace we’ve lived in all these years?”
-- Angier offers optimistic alternatives and transcends feminist polemics with an enlightened subversiveness that makes for a joyful, fresh vision of womanhood.
-- An essential read for anyone interested in how biology affects who we are – as women, as men, and as human beings.
