Description:
Shortlisted for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
One of Five Books Best Literary Science Writing titles in 2023
A New York Times Editors' Choice
A Science Friday Best Science Book to Read This Summer
A myth-busting voyage into the female body.
Brief description: Rachel E. Gross is an award-winning science journalist based in Brooklyn, New York. A former Knight Science Journalism Fellow and digital science editor of Smithsonian Magazine, she writes for BBC Future, the New York Times, and Scientific American.
Review Quotes: Through her seamless storytelling and meticulous research, Rachel Gross shows how long we have misunderstood the bodies of half the people who have ever lived, how much we still have to learn, and how wondrous and rewarding that quest can be. Vagina Obscura is science writing at its finest--revelatory, wry, consequential, necessary, and incredibly hard to put down.--Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of I Contain Multitudes