• The End of America has sold over 100,000 copies. The paperback and hardcover editions of The Beauty Myth have sold over 100,000 copies combined. Both were New York Times bestsellers.

• Naomi Wolf’s first book, The Beauty Myth, is an international bestseller and keystone of third wave feminism, a modern classic that is required reading in women’s studies courses across the country. Vagina: A New Biography marks a return to the subject matter—women’s bodies and women’s lives-that made her name.
 
 

When an unexpected medical crisis sends Naomi Wolf on a deeply personal journey to tease out the intersections between sex and creativity, she discovers, much to her own shock, an increasing body of evidence that suggests that the vagina is not merely flesh, but is an intrinsic component of the female brain and thus female consciousness itself. A brilliant and nuanced synthesis of physiology, history, and culture, Vagina: A New Biography explores the physical, political, and spiritual implications for women and for society as a whole of this startling scientific breakthrough.

Utterly enthralling and totally fascinating, Vagina: A New Biography reveals new information about what women really need and considers what a sexual relationship transformed by these insights could look like, as it traces the distance from historical social control of the vagina—which leads naturally to social control of women’s minds and inner lives—to the contemporary pressures brought to bear on it, from pornography to plastic surgery, while weaving in a path toward a radical reclaiming of the body and the self.

An exhilarating and groundbreaking work that combines rigorous lay science and deeply personal considerations of female identity, Vagina: A New Biography is a provocative, deeply engaging book sure to provoke impassioned conversation, from a writer whose conviction and keen intelligence have propelled her works to the tops of bestseller lists and firmly into the realms of modern classics.