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Title: Woman : An Intimate Geography by Natalie Angier ISBN: 0-385-49841-1 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 15 February, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.97 (121 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: close up
Comment: Women, I think we'd all be much more comfortable naked.
Rating: 4
Summary: I am WOMAN...
Comment: I love this book. From the history of hysterectomy to the evolution of the breasts, this book covers at least a thousand things you (especially if you're a woman, too) really ought to know about biological womanhood. Even better than that, it's written by a (female) science writer who can really write, and while it does at times get difficult (well, it's a science book), having to reread a paragraph every once in a while won't kill you -- in fact, it'll help you understand yourself.
Better still, this is an empowering book. Natalie Angier is no 1960s feminist theorist; she's a thoroughly modern lady scientifically pointing out why the female body/mind is different, similar, complicated beyond our wildest dreams, ultimately beautiful and eminently worthy of praise.
Drawing on anthropology (my thing, so I loved that), biology, psychology, genetics, and a host of other fields, Ms. Angier introduces facts, fallacies, theories, hypotheses, and the data itself, and while she sometimes draws her own conclusions, a great deal is left for the reader to make up her (or his -- men can read this book too!) own mind. She includes a healthy dose of speculation, but -- and this is crucial -- she recognizes in the text that she is speculating, she points out the actual data, and again she leaves us to agree with her, modify her ideas, or not.
Bottom line: WOMAN is a treat and a half.
Rating: 4
Summary: A book both women AND men should read
Comment: Angier ties together, in a highly readable manner, the complexities of the human body very, very well all the while never loosing site of the whole.
I disagree with her on a few points. I don't think she sufficiently looked at human relationships as far as she could but, overall, this is minor.
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Title: The Beauty of the Beastly by Natalie Angier ISBN: 0395791472 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 04 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Vagina Monologues: The V-Day Edition by Eve Ensler ISBN: 0375756981 Publisher: Villard Pub. Date: 05 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Our Bodies Ourselves For The New Century by Boston Women's Health Book Collective ISBN: 0684842319 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 04 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Natural Obsessions : Striving to Unlock the Deepest Secrets of the Cancer Cell by Natalie Angier ISBN: 0395924723 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 06 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Manifesta : Young Women, Feminism, and the Future by Jennifer Baumgardner, Amy Richards ISBN: 0374526222 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 04 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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