Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage Gross Rachel E.
Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage Gross Rachel E. The Latin term for the female genitalia, pudendum, means "parts for which you should be ashamed." Until 1651, ovaries were called female…
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Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage Gross Rachel E.
The Latin term for the female genitalia, pudendum, means "parts for which you should be ashamed." Until 1651, ovaries were called female testicles. 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. The fallopian tubes are named for a man.
Through their eyes, journalist Rachel E. 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. Gross takes readers on an anatomical odyssey to the center 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.
Full of wit and wonder, Vagina Obscura is a