- Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: Vintage; Open Market Ed edition (5 Feb 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0099275341
- ISBN-13: 978-0099275343
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 11.2 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,013,621 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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.
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Format:Hardcover
This is the best non-fiction book I have ever read. It really makes you think. I now know I am not the only one who has felt these same feelings. I have grown up feeling ashamed and dirty about my sexuality. I have come around a little on my owm, but this book really helped me. I think that these problems can be solved, but more girls and women need to be aware. The only way to solve this problem is to first educate girls and women, to somehow unite them. Women are each others worst enemy. I think this book could really open the eyes of a lot of women and make them realize things they have not before. It did for me.
Format:Hardcover
Whenever a woman tells the truth it is radical and ground-breaking - even if it's only for her own benefit. I felt deeply moved and validated in my own personal choices by the honesty of Wolf's acount. Whatever the criticisms of her work as feminist theory or sociology, these pale in comparison to the contribution she has made by simply naming her experience, and sharing it.
Format:Hardcover
Naomi Wolf was a brave woman to write Promiscuities. The personal stories she shares which are similar to the experiences of many women, but most women would never voice them. She writes of girl's desires which as a culture we prefer to ignore. It is okay for teenage boys to have sexual desire but not girls. Both the condemnation and the silence about the very real sexual feelings of teenage girls is one of the reasons we have so many troubled girls.
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Promiscuities is interesting if viewed as a book detailing one woman's coming of age. However, as a more serious feminist view, it is a poor read. Ms. Read more
Published on 9 Oct 1997
Not what I expected
One would assume that the celebrated author of Fire With Fire and The Beauty Myth would no doubt break fresh intellectual ground with her report on female adolescence,... Read more
Published on 28 Sep 1997
Excellent insight about coming of age as a female
I enjoyed this book greatly for the history and background Wolf gave on various rituals for the coming of age. Read more
Published on 11 Aug 1997
Well Worth Your Time
I found this book to be a facinating study into what it meant to grow up female in San Francisco in the 1970's. Having grown up in rural america about the same time as Ms. Read more
Published on 23 July 1997
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