Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood

Wolf, Naomi

ISBN 10: 067941603X / ISBN 13: 9780679416036

Published by Random House, New York, 1997

About this Item

First printing of the stated first edition. Signed by Naomi Wolf directly on the half-title page. Light shelf wear, else book and dust jacket in fine condition.

Seller Inventory # 022742

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood
• Publisher: Random House, New York
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 067941603X
• ISBN 13: 9780679416036
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Liz Hampton (Back jacket photo); Will Van Overbeck (Front jacket photo); Robbin Schiff
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed First Editions
  • Social Science
  • A Collection of Women Writers

About this title

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.

About the Author

Naomi Wolf lives inWashington, D.C. Her first two books, <b>The Beauty Myth</b> and <b>Fire with Fire</b>, international bestsellers, were both <b>New York Times</b> Notable Books of the Year. The <b>New York Times</b> called <b>The Beauty Myth</b> one of the seventy most significant books of the century. Wolf's essays appear regularly in <b>The New Republic, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Glamour, Ms.</b>, and other publications. She lectures widely on women's issues, and recently taught a course on the language of politics at George Washington University, where she is a Visiting Scholar.