title: Woman: An Intimate Geography
author:  Natalie Angier 
description: "A tour de force, a wonderful, entertaining and informative book." <i>The New York Times Book Review</i><br /><br />"Angier's <b>Woman</b> is as good as it gets." Thomas Lynch, <i>Los Angeles Times</i><br /><br />"If Our Bodies, Ourselves has become the bible of women's bodies, let <b>Woman: An Intimate Geography</b> be our Shakespeare." Peggy Orenstein, <i>Elle</i><br /><br />"The chief manifesto of the new 'femaleist' thinking." Barbara Ehrenreich, <i>Time</i><br /><br />
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  Natalie Angier
  
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  ANCHOR BOOKS
  
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  Natalie Angier  
  _WOMAN_
  
  Natalie Angier writes about biology for _The New York Times_ , where she has
  won a Pulitzer Prize, the American Association for the Advancement of Science
  journalism award, and other honors. The author of two previous books, _The
  Beauty of the Beastly_ and _Natural Obsessions_ , she lives with her family in
  Takoma Park, Maryland.
  
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  BOOKS BY NATALIE ANGIER
  
  Natural Obsessions: Striving to Unlock  
  the Deepest Secrets of the Cancer Cell
  
  The Beauty of the Beastly:  
  New Views of the Nature of Life
  
  Woman: An Intimate Geography
  
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  First Anchor Books Edition, March 2000
  
  Copyright © 1999 by Natalie Angier
  
  All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright
  Conventions.  
  Published in the United States by Anchor Books, a division of  
  Random House, Inc., New Yor