Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood - Hardcover

Wolf, Naomi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 067941603X ISBN 13: 9780679416036

Publisher: Random House Inc, 1997

Synopsis

In a personal consideration of adolescent women's sexual coming of age, the author of The Beauty Myth discusses her own experiences and those of her peers, assessing the popular culture, myths, history, and scientific research that have created the definition of womanhood. 200,000 first printing. Tour.

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Review:

"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)

Book Description:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 067941603X
• ISBN 13: 9780679416036
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 286