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Promiscuities
Naomi Wolf
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Description for Promiscuities
Paperback. Explores and celebrates the phenomenon of female sexuality - empirically, imaginatively, anatomically and personally. Following a group of four girls (including her younger self) as they come of age in the 70s, Wolfe shows how our culture tries to shape and confine women's desire. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; VFVC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 210.
By following a group of four contemporary girls - including her younger self - as they come of age in the seventies, Wolf shows how our culture tries to shape and confine women's desire. Embarking on a voyage of discovery, she illustrates how flawed and prescribed are the notions of what women want, and how these change through the ages - from Taoist techniques for giving women pleasure, to Victorian repression, and the so-called liberated nineties.
Drawing on scholarly texts, secret diaries, real life and fantasy, she demonstrates that female sexuality is wilder, more demanding and more powerful than our culture dares to accept.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099205913
SKU
V9780099205913
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2
About Naomi Wolf
Naomi Wolf was born in 1962 in San Francisco, where she grew up. She studied at Yale before becoming a Rhodes Scholar at New College, Oxford, and working in Edinburgh. She was catapulted to success in 1990 with the publication of her first book, The Beauty Myth, which became an international bestseller, published in fourteen countries. This was followed by another best-selling book, Fire with Fire, about women's relationship to power. She writes on women's issues and lectures all over the world.
Reviews for Promiscuities
Her book is a searing and thoroughly fascinating exploration of the complex wildlife of female sexuality and desire.
New York Times
At last, a new generation of women writers is addressing the powerful issues of female sexuality. I gulped this wonderful book down in one sitting, like a novel. Brava Naomi Wolf for your courage, your intelligence, your lucid prose.
Erica Jong
Refreshing... Highly evocative... Wolf does two important things very well: reminding readers her own age what it felt like to be a teenage girl, and providing a crash course on the wildly varying cultural meanings attached to female sexuality throughout history
The Ottawa Citizen
Naomi Wolf [is] the best writer about women and sexuality that we have
Toronto Sun
Fascinating... Wolf celebrates the ancient concept, heavily suppressed in the 20th century, that women are the more carnal sex
Vancouver Courier
New York Times
At last, a new generation of women writers is addressing the powerful issues of female sexuality. I gulped this wonderful book down in one sitting, like a novel. Brava Naomi Wolf for your courage, your intelligence, your lucid prose.
Erica Jong
Refreshing... Highly evocative... Wolf does two important things very well: reminding readers her own age what it felt like to be a teenage girl, and providing a crash course on the wildly varying cultural meanings attached to female sexuality throughout history
The Ottawa Citizen
Naomi Wolf [is] the best writer about women and sexuality that we have
Toronto Sun
Fascinating... Wolf celebrates the ancient concept, heavily suppressed in the 20th century, that women are the more carnal sex
Vancouver Courier