Pulitzer Prize-winning author Natalie Angier takes listeners on an amazing tour of the female body.

Comments about the hardcover edition of this title:

The New York Times, Marilyn Yalom
"...dazzling.... What you'll see through her eyes will startle and amaze you."

Barbara Ehrenreich, Time magazine
"The revolution already has a manifesto in the form of the ebullient Woman : An Intimate Geography. There are other female-positive books hitting the stores - but it's Angier who most decisively lifts the concept of the human female out of its traditional oxymoronic status. 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."

Natalie Angier lifts the veil of secrecy from that most enigmatic of evolutionary masterpieces, the female body, exploring the essence of what it means to be a woman. Angier takes on everything from organs (breasts "are funny things, really, and we should learn to laugh at them") to orgasm (happily for women, the clitoris has 8,000 nerve fibers, twice the number in the penis). Also delving into topics such as exercise and menopause, female aggression and evolutionary psychologists' faddish views of "female nature," she creates a joyful, fresh vision of womanhood.

Written by Natalie Angier - Performed by Gabrielle Decuir - Abridged Nonfiction - 4 CASSETTES

Publisher, Dove Audio (July 1999)