Vagina: Una nueva biografía de la sexualidad femenina
By Naomi Wolf
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Esta obra es una fascinante investigación en la vanguardia de la ciencia, una inmersión en la trayectoria personal de la autora y un repaso a la historia cultural; una mirada muy sutil e inteligente que nos lleva a replantear de forma radical nuestra manera de comprender la vagina y, por consiguiente, de entender a las mujeres. Y es que según Naomi Wolf la vagina es un componente intrínseco del cerebro femenino. Por tanto, posee una conexión esencial con la consciencia femenina. Asimismo, la autora profundiza en el rol de la vagina en el amor, la sexualidad, la espiritualidad, la sociedad e incluso la política.
Aclamado por el Publishers Weekly como uno de los mejores libros de ciencia del año, Vagina es un libro muy provocador y ameno, sin duda destinado a convertirse en un clásico contemporáneo.
Naomi Wolf
Naomi Wolf ’s most recent books include the New York Times bestsellers Vagina, The End of America, and Give Me Liberty, in addition to the landmark bestseller The Beauty Myth. A former Rhodes Scholar, she completed a doctorate in English language and literature from the University of Oxford in 2015, was a research fellow at Barnard College and the University of Oxford, and taught rhetoric at the George Washington University and Victorian studies at Stony Brook University. Wolf lives in the Hudson River Valley.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This should be required reading for anyone who owns a vagina and anyone who would like to have a sexual relationship with someone who owns a vagina. It's a fascinating exploration of science, social history, literature and pornography in relation to the female sex organs, particularly focusing on the close relationship between a woman's emotional wellbeing and her sexual experiences. Naomi Wolf has done extensive research and presents her findings in a very accessible and quietly humorous way which is easy to read. The chapters on porn and on the systematic use of rape in wartime to subdue women were more challenging and heart-breaking to read, but important to know about.
Minor editing point - the green Teletubby is Dipsy, not Ditsy. ;-) - Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I gave up about 75% of the way through this. Not sure how to state that in Good Reads?
This is a rather controversial book - people seem to either hate it or love it. And I can see why - it's an emotionally manipulative book. While Naomi Wolf brings up some very good points, and reveals some things about the long-term consequences of sexual violence that are worth noting, she is unfortunately unreliable in her scholarship. I think this would have worked better if she had taken a few steps back from the subject matter and made if far less personal?
She's also wildly inconsistent. At one point she states that you cannot generalize about people's sexual experiences. That every woman experiences sex differently (and men possibly do as well - she's not certain). Then states - that all creativity arises from orgasms or is directly linked to the Vagina and orgasms. Uh, sorry, Naomi, but I beg to differ. Most of the women I've met who had lots of orgasms, aren't that creative, and the one's who haven't had any - are highly creative. Great Sex does not necessarily equal Great ART or Heightened Creativity, or vice versa. To state that it does for everyone, immediately took me out of the book. I ended up scanning pages and pages of literary quotes where she attempts to prove her point - with isolated letters from Edith Wharton, George Eliot and Georgia O'Keefe, who ahem, were wildly creative without having sex as well. While ignoring completely Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, Emily Dickenson, Lousia May Alcott, and various others. I'm certain if you identified with or related to her hypothesis, you loved this book, but if you didn't and know it's untrue, you may have stopped right there.
You'd think from her prior statements that everyone experiences sex differently she'd have figured this out on her own? And there's the main problem with this book - the writer generalizes about a topic that ironically, she herself states up front, you simply cannot generalize about.
The unreliability doesn't stop there, unfortunately. Nor do the generalizations. I gave up when she attempted to convince me that Shakespeare's use of the word "Nothing" in King Lear meant "Vagina".
This was after she attacked the Hebrew, Christian and various other faiths for being misogynistic and against the vagina. Taking various texts out of context, much like she does with Shakespeare. It's clearly meant to manipulate the reader's emotions, making Wolf somewhat unreliable.
So unfortunately, the good points - such as the section on how rape has some horrific long term effects (although I think she generalizes a bit here as well, not everyone has reacted to it in this manner - I know I've known and worked with rape victims), and how sex is different for everyone - is a bit lost amongst the crazy stuff. Making it difficult to take the book or the author seriously. I wish she had a better editor - someone who could have convinced her to tone it down a notch and not go on for 20 pages regarding the various ways Shakespeare may have denigrated the Vagina, depending on your interpretation. Some of it is rather hilarious in retrospect.
Overall, disappointing, and not worth the bother. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This was a very intersting book on a topic that is rarely discussed. The book is aimed at a female audience but I felt that I learned alot about female sexual response and male involvement in this. I hope to appropriate some of what I learned and become more in tune with the needs of women. I wish that I had read this many years ago.