THE STORY OF V: OPENING PANDORA'S BOX.

BLACKLEDGE, Catherine.

ISBN 10: 0297607065 / ISBN 13: 9780297607069

Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson,, London,, 2003

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First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Large 8vo. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. ISBN: 0297607065 Pages: 288 Fine in fine dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # C70680

Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE STORY OF V: OPENING PANDORA'S BOX.
• Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson,, London,
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0297607065
• ISBN 13: 9780297607069
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

It is the seat of female sexual pleasure, the passage for both the creation and the birth of humankind, and the channel for menstrual blood. Yet we know less about the vagina – its structure and function – than we do about any other organ of the human body. For the first time in history, however, scientists are making a concerted effort to discover what it is, how it works and what it does.

THE STORY OF V explores what science can now tell us about the female genitalia as well as providing a fascinating cultural history of our perceptions and mis-conceptions. More than two millennia of misinformation have resulted in a culture where we hold back from mentioning the vagina, where it is most commonly viewed as pornographic and where scientists are unsure about the nature of its role in sexual pleasure and sexual reproduction. Of all the organs of the human body, the vagina remains the most clouded in mystery, myth and superstition. In the past, medicine may have misrepresented female sexual anatomy, but, as this book aims to show, science is at last beginning to reveal its remarkable complexities in a more positive light.

About the Author

Cath Blackledge has a Ph.D. in chemistry from Birkbeck College, London. She has worked as a reporter, news editor and editor for numerous specialist publications, including European Chemical News and Pharmaceutical Business News, and is a former science and medical correspondent for The European. Now a freelance science writer and broadcaster, she also holds a part-time research position at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. In 1999, she was shortlisted for the prestigious Glaxo Science Writers Prize.