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Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage

Top of the pile

91

/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

94/100

Critics

88/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Rachel E. Gross

Publisher:

W. W. Norton & Company

Date:

March 29, 2022

A myth-busting voyage into the female body.

What The Reviewers Say

Maya Salam,
The New York Times Book Review
Taking readers on an expansive journey across continents, cultures, centuries and even species, Gross reveals a stunning disparity in Western medicine and academia.
Grace Caternolo,
Library Journal
Enthralling and scrupulously researched.
Linda Castellitto,
BookPage
Engaging and enormously fascinating.

Kirkus
The author makes a lively debut with a fresh, informative examination of women’s entire reproductive system, melding medical history...with a wide range of interviews and biological sleuthing in research laboratories all over the world.