Origin of the World: Science and the Fiction of the Vagina
BMJ 2005; 330 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.330.7497.970 (Published 21 April 2005) Cite this as: BMJ 2005;330:970
- Virginia Braun (v.braun@auckland.ac.nz)
- department of psychology, University of Auckland, New Zealand
The vagina—and here I follow the title of the book by using this term as lay shorthand for women's genitalia—is a paradoxical part of women's bodies. Reviled but also revered, it has been received in different historical and cultural contexts with revulsion, awe, fascination, denial, violence, and even entrepreneurialism.
Jelto Drenth
Reaktion, £19.95/$29, pp 304 ISBN 1 86189 210 1 http://www.reaktionbooks.co.uk/
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In recent years in the West the academy and popular culture have focused attention on the vagina. This fascinating and lively account of the “science and fiction of the vagina,” which …
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