In her bravest, best-written, most thoroughly argued, and most important book to date, the bestselling author of "The Beauty Myth" provides a provocative, honest account of growing up female in post-sexual-revolution America.
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In her bravest, best-written, most thoroughly argued, and most important book to date, the bestselling author of "The Beauty Myth" provides a provocative, honest account of growing up female in post-sexual-revolution America.
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Add this copy of Promiscuities: the Secret Struggle for Womanhood to cart. $28.06, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1997 by Random House Canada.
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Fine in Near Very Fine jacket. Book. Signed by Author(s) (1st) Large book, black cloth spine, gray boards, bright gilt lettering on spine, light green stamp of frog at top near tip of first front end paper, signed on half-title page "Naomi Wolf." 286 pages plus brief biographical note. DJ glossy gray beneath mylar with photo of young women on front and top back, praise from Erica Jong and others. DJ has light wear at bottom back tip. DJ and book, both Near Very Fine.
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Very good in good dust jacket. Signed by author. DJ has some wear and soiling. xxx, 286, [2] p. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Fresh from the success of "The Beauty Myth", cultural muckraker Naomi Wolf here trains her sights upon women's sexual rites of passage. For her research she relies upon her own memories, and those of her friends, of coming into womanhood during the 1970s and early 1980s--after The Pill and before AIDS. Wolf concentrates on the physical and psychological changes that girls experience between 10 and 21, and the resulting limitations brought on by these changes. Her broad exploration of adolescent female eros includes not only the games, erotic dreams, and fantasies of first love, but the accompanying rites of initiation, virginity (and what its loss means), birth control, abortion, pornography, and sexual violence.
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Near the end of the book Naomi Wolf writes "sex is in the mind" but continues that it is not what we are taught to do but what we are taught to think. Much of the work leading up to this statement reveals what we are taught and at times compares "modern western' social mores with those of the past and of other cultures. A thought provoking book that I recommend everyone read but especially recommend it for girls that are in the process of becoming 'women', not just physically, but emotionally and intellectually as a counter-balance to what may be taught in sex-ed curricula and/or religious indoctrination.
BrandonD
Dec 21, 2009
Trash
Naomi Wolf can not make up her mind. In her other books, she trashes our personal freedoms and now she's talking about promiscuity. Her suggestions in other books would make promiscuity illegal. This book is aweful.