Woman: An Intimate Geography (139 page)

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Authors: Natalie Angier

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as equivalent of male testicles, 84, 162
Greek name for, 45
hysterectomy and, 120
removal of (ovariectomy), 89
testosterone produced by, 187, 245
See also
Eggs; Ovulation
Oviducts.
See
Fallopian tubes
Ovulation, 2, 92, 105
cryptic, 339-40
hormones and, 9, 165, 167, 168, 176, 198
ovulatory (menstrual) cycle,
see
Menstruation

 

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social control of, 172-76
stress and, 169
Victorian scientific view of, 165
weight and, 164
Oxytocin, 149, 180
data from human studies, 313-15
experiments involving, 311-13
as "love hormone," 310-17
in nursing mothers, 313-17
and orgasm, 315
P
Paglia, Camille, xii, 97, 99, 108
Parens, Dr. Henri, 264
Parents.
See
Children;

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