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The author explores the essence of what it means to be a woman--in body and mind--as she shares her thoughts on everything from organs to orgasm and menopause. Full description
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Into the light
- Unscrambling the egg: It begins with one perfect solar cell
- Mosaic imagination: Understanding the "female" chromosome
- Default line: Is the female body a passive construct?
- Well-tempered clavier: On the evolution of the clitoris
- Suckers and horns: Prodigal uterus
- Mass hysteria: Losing the uterus
- Circular reasonings: Story of the breast
- Holy water: Breast milk
- Gray and yellow basket: Bounteous ovary
- Greasing the wheels: Brief history of hormones
- Venus in furs: Estrogen and desire
- Mindful menopause: Can we live without estrogen?
- There's no place like notoriety: Mothers, grandmothers, and other great dames
- Wolf whistles and hyena smiles: Testosterone and women
- Spiking the punch: In defense of female aggression
- Cheap meat: Learning to make a muscle
- Labor of love: Chemistry of human bondage
- Of hoggamus and hogwash: Putting evolutionary psychology on the couch
- Skeptic in paradise: Call for revolutionary psychology.