Promiscuities The Secret Struggle for Womanhood

Name: Promiscuities The Secret Struggle for Womanhood
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ISBN: 9780449907641

ISBN-10: 0449907643

ISBN-13: 9780449907641

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Authors: Naomi Wolf

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In this provocative and highly personal book, bestselling author Naomi Wolf explores a subject that has long been taboo in our society: women's sexual coming-of-age. Promiscuities brazenly exposes the truths behind the conflicting messages directed at young women during and after the sexual revolution. Drawing on surprising examples from the ancient and recent past, along with vivid recollections of her own youth, Wolf shows how our "liberated" culture still fears and distorts female passion. She also shares fascinating true stories that illustrate the fantasies and sometimes crippling realities women pass through on their way toward erotic and emotional discovery. A landmark book,…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/21/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.49" wide x 8.20" long x 0.74" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Naomi Wolf was born in 1962 in San Francisco. She studied at Yale before becoming a Rhodes scholar at New College, Oxford, and working in Edinburgh. The Beauty Myth was published in 1990 and was an international bestseller. This was followed by Fire with Fire, Promiscuities, Misconceptions and The Tree House.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: First Person Sexual



The Time and the Place: 1968-1971



The Facts of Life



Activity into Passivity: Blanking Out



Free Flight to House Arrest: Slowing Down



Nakedness: Pride and Shame



Girlfriends



Sluts



First Base: Hierarchy



Second Base: Love and Control



Crash Course: Their Bodies



Third Base: Identity



Fourth Base: How to Make a Woman



Skipped Homework: Our Bodies



More Skipped Homework: Our Pleasure



Babies



Cheap or Precious?



Adults



A Virus



An Hypocrisy



The Technically White Dress



The Time and the Place: 1996


Notes


Bibliography


Index