Publisher Description
A revised and updated anniversary edition of Natalie Angier’s bestselling guide to―and celebration of―the female body
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 listener-friendly dose of science, Woman is an essential and engaging resource for all time.
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“The revolution already has a manifesto in the form of the ebullient Woman: An Intimate Geography…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.”
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Time
About Natalie Angier
Natalie Angier writes about biology for the New York Times, where she has won a Pulitzer Prize, the American Association for the Advancement of Science journalism award, and other honors. She is the author of The Beauty of the Beastly, Natural Obsessions, and Woman, named one of the best books of the year by the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, People, National Public Radio, Village Voice, and Publishers Weekly, among others.
About Katie Schorr
Katie Schorr is an actor and
writer in New York. Her one-woman show, Take
Me. Seriously, ran for six months at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater,
and she performs throughout New York in new works at the Ensemble Studio
Theatre and Ars Nova, among other theaters. She has appeared on VH1’s Best Week Ever and costars in the web
series Head in the Oven with Saturday Night Live actor Bill Hader.
Her audiobook credits include narrating the novels in Alyson Noel’s bestselling
Immortals series. Of her work on the series, AudioFile magazine has said, “Narrator Katie Schorr has a
wonderfully raspy, youthful voice, which she puts to good effect on the cast of
teenage characters.”