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An Opinionated History of Female Desire
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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. 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.

Author Biography:

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.
Release date Australia
March 5th, 1998
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Audiences
  • General (US: Trade)
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Pages
288
Dimensions
129x198x17
ISBN-13
9780099205913
Product ID
1654597

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