Vagina: A New Biography

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Does the Vagina Have a Consciousness?

1. Meet Tour Incredible Pelvic Nerve

2. Your Dreamy Autonomic Nervous System

3. Confidence, Creativity, and the Sense of Interconnectedness

4. Dopamine, Opioids, and Oxytocin

5. What We "Know" About Female Sexuality Is Out of Date

2. History: Conquest and Control

6. The Traumatized Vagina

7. The Vagina Began as Sacred

8. The Victorian Vagina: Medicalization and Subjugation

9. Modernism: The "Liberated" Vagina

3. Who Names the Vagina?

10. "The Worst Word There Is"

11. How Funny Was That?

12. The Pornographic Vagina

4. The Goddess Array

13. "The Beloved Is Me"

14. Radical Pleasure, Radical Awakening: The Vagina as Liberator

Conclusion / Reclaiming the Goddess

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index