Naomi Wolf

Broschiertes Buch

Promiscuities

An Opinionated History of Female Desire

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: GB Gardners Books / Vintage, London
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 536979
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 199mm x 129mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 208g
• ISBN-13: 9780099205913
• ISBN-10: 0099205912
• Artikelnr.: 20988117

Rezensionen

Her book is a searing and thoroughly fascinating exploration of the complex wildlife of female sexuality and desire. New York Times