7 rows · · In this provocative and highly personal book, bestselling author Naomi Wolf explores a subject Edition description: Reprint. Naomi Wolf is the author of seven books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Beauty Myth, Promiscuities, Misconceptions, The End of America, and Give Me Liberty. She writes for the New Republic, Time, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Huffington Post, Al. Promiscuities BY NAOMI WOLF Random House: $25 Last Night in Paradise BY KATIE ROIPHE Little', Brown; pages; $ IT'S SPRING, AND A YOUNG FEMINIST'S FANCY TURNS ponderously to thoughts of the culturally imposed.
On Febru, controversial American feminist Naomi Wolf came to the John Adams Institute in honor of the Dutch translation of her book, Promiscuitie. This is Naomi Wolf's bravest, most engaging, most thoroughly argued, and most important book to date. If The Beauty Myth, which helped to change what women see when they look in the mirror, was a benchmark, Promiscuities will be a landmark: an exceptionally frank sexual memoir of an individual as well as of a generation that will help change. Buy Promiscuities: An Opinionated History of Female Desire by Wolf, Naomi (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
This luminous personal memoir of a young girl's discovery and embrace of her own sexual desire is somewhat dimmed by the author's intrusive, familiar analysis of this culture's misrepresentation of female sexuality. Wolf sets up her third book of feminist social commentary as an ethnography of a subculture--specifically, white, middle-class girls who crossed the threshhold of adolescence in the s. 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. 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.
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