Promiscuities The Secret Struggle for Womanhood
by WOLF, NAOMIEdition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1998-07-21
Publisher(s): Ballantine Books
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Summary
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. She also shares fascinating true stories that illustrate the fantasies and sometimes crippling realities women pass through on their way toward erotic and emotional discovery. A landmark book, Promiscuities is a call to women of all ages to reclaim and celebrate their sexuality.
Author Biography
Naomi Wolf's first book, The Beauty Myth, was published in 14 countries (over 70,000 copies in paperback sold in Canada to date) and is an international bestseller. Her second book, Fire with Fire, was also well received by critics and readers alike. Wolf has appeared on many national talk shows and speaks to college audiences across Canada and the United States on the topic of young women and feminism.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction: First Person Sexual | |
| The Time and the Place: 1968-1971 | p. 3 |
| The Facts of Life | p. 14 |
| Activity into Passivity: Blanking Out | p. 23 |
| Free Flight to House Arrest: Slowing Down | p. 29 |
| Nakedness: Pride and Shame | p. 35 |
| Girlfriends | p. 50 |
| Sluts | p. 57 |
| First Base: Hierarchy | p. 83 |
| Second Base: Love and Control | p. 87 |
| Crash Course: Their Bodies | p. 97 |
| Third Base: Identity | p. 104 |
| Fourth Base: How to Make a Woman | p. 116 |
| Skipped Homework: Our Bodies | p. 139 |
| More Skipped Homework: Our Pleasure | p. 157 |
| Babies | p. 162 |
| Cheap or Precious? | p. 172 |
| Adults | p. 192 |
| A Virus | p. 201 |
| An Hypocrisy | p. 208 |
| The Technically White Dress | p. 221 |
| The Time and the Place: 1996 | p. 225 |
| Notes | p. 235 |
| Bibliography | p. 263 |
| Index | p. 273 |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
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