Podcast
Unexplainable
The book was discussed in an episode where host Hilary Frank introduced it as an anatomical voyage of the vagina, and author Rachel E. Gross explained that it also examines the gaps in scientific knowledge about female bodies. The conversation highlighted how the title walks listeners through female reproductive anatomy from the outside in and why half the bodies on earth remain understudied.
Episode: The Vagina Voyages
This book explored the anatomy of the vagina through an anatomical voyage, revealing significant gaps in scientific knowledge about the organ. The author detailed how the book went beyond just anatomy to discuss why so much about female bodies remained unknown.
Rachel wrote a whole book about vaginas. It's called Vagina Obscura, an anatomical voyage.
But as I started to do the actual reporting and research, I realized that it was also a book about these like gaps in our knowledge and why there was so much that we didn't know about half the bodies on earth.
So your book, Vagina Obscura, walks us through female reproductive anatomy from the outside in.
Rachel's book about the vagina and friends is called Vagina Obscura.