Breasts, clitoris, hymen, and womb. Across history, these body parts have told women who they are and what they should do. In Immaculate Forms, classicist and historian Helen King explores the symbiotic relationship between religion and medicine and their twinned history of gatekeeping over these key organs that have been used to define "woman," illustrating how conceptions of women's bodies have owed more to imagination and myth than to observation and science. 480 pages hc