# Woman

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- Book: [Woman](https://www.bookquiver.com/natalie-angier/woman) ([Woman.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/natalie-angier/woman.md))
- Authors: [Natalie Angier](https://www.bookquiver.com/natalie-angier)
- Publisher: virago
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-18-4408-991-8
- Published: 2014-08-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

WOMAN explores the essence of what it means to be female. In mapping the inner woman - from organs to orgasms - Natalie Angier presents an extraordinary new vision of the female body as an evolutionary masterpiece. 'Anyone living in or near a female body should read this book' - Gloria Steinem 'Women have long been regarded as slaves to biology and evolution, prisoners in a hormonal swamp. But now, some of the sacred tenets of evolutionary psychology . . . have come under fresh challenge. As the century turns, it could be Goodbye women's lib; hello female liberation! . . . WOMAN is a delicious cocktail of estrogen and amphetamine designed to pump up the ovaries as well as the cerebral cortex' - Barbara Ehrenreich, Time magazine 'Drawing on science, literature and history, Angier provides valuable insight into the power of hormones, breast milk and the all-important clitoris. A must for every woman's bookshelf' - Woman's Journal