Woman

An Intimate Geography

Author: Natalie Angier and Katie Schorr

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A revised and updated anniversary edition of Natalie Angier's bestselling guide to―and celebration of―the female body

Woman is a fascinating, fact-filled guide that covers everything from organs to orgasms, hormones to hysterectomies. With her characteristic clarity, insight, and sheer exuberance of language, bestselling author Natalie Angier cuts through the still prevalent myths and misinformation surrounding the female body, that most enigmatic of evolutionary masterpieces. With a witty and assured narrative, and a listener-friendly dose of science, Woman is an essential and engaging resource for all time.

Critic Reviews

“"Ultimately, this grand tour of the female body provides a new vision of the role of women in the history of our species."”

"A tour de force, a wonderful, entertaining and informative book."

-- "New York Times Book Review"

"Dazzling...What you'll see through her eyes will startle and amaze you."

-- "New York Times"

"One knows early on one is reading a classic--a text so necessary and abundant and true that all efforts of its kind, for decades before and after it, will be measure by it."

-- "Los Angeles Times"

"The revolution already has a manifesto in the form of the ebullient Woman: An Intimate Geography...You gotta love a self-described female chauvinist sow who writes like Walt Whitman crossed with Erma Bombeck and depicts the vagina as a Rorschach with legs. Woman is a delicious cocktail of estrogen and amphetamine designed to pump up the ovaries as well as the cerebral cortex."

-- "Time"

-- "Washington Post"

About the Author

Natalie Angier is a Pulitzer Prize-winning science columnist for the New York Times. She is the author of The Canon, The Beauty of the Beastly, and Natural Obsessions. She lives outside Washington, D.C.Katie Schorr's audiobook credits include narrating the novels in Alyson Noel's bestselling Immortals series - Evermore, Blue Moon, Shadowland, and Dark Flame. Of her work on the series, AudioFile magazine has said, "Narrator Katie Schorr has a wonderfully raspy, youthful voice, which she puts to good effect on the cast of teenaged characters."Schorr's one-woman show, Take Me. Seriously., ran for six months at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, and she performs throughout New York in new works at The Ensemble Studio Theater and Ars Nova, among other theaters. She has appeared on VH1's Best Week Ever and co-stars in the web series Head in the Oven with Saturday Night Live actor Bill Hader. She is the co-creator of Yoga Partners: A Web Series.