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Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage

byRachel E. Gross

Similarly, science has long viewed woman through a warped lens, one focused narrowly on her capacity for reproduction. Drawing on scientific research, fieldwork, and carefully chosen case studies, the narrative gives Vagina Obscura a concrete sense of time, place, and consequence. Across the book, the anatomical voyage becomes a way to examine power, adaptation, responsibility, and change within history and medical. Vagina Obscura ultimately offers a nuanced guide to the evidence, the human stakes, and the consequences that make this subject worth revisiting.

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Publication date

Mar 01, 2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

320

ISBN

9781324006312