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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.

"Wolf writes in the 'first person sexual,' using her own coming-of-age as the starting point of her analysis. No doubt, many of her memories will resonate with female readers who will welcome Wolf's ability to make meaningful even seemingly trivial teenage incidents by putting them into a larger cultural context. 'Promiscuities' is a gold mine of observations, facts, anecdotes and ideas about the making of female sexuality."

Carol Gilligan

"[Her] memoir returns us to William Carlos Williams's dictum, 'No ideas but in things.' Wolf's best ideas in 'Promiscuities' are the small, sharp ones that leap right out of the 'things' she is considering" her own and her friends' experiences as young girls trying to claim their sexual selves in the lurid hothouse of seventies San Francisco....As long as her thinking stays close to those memories....as much about betrayal, class and competition as innocence and yearning, she hits the nail on the head...[harkening] back to the best of second-wave feminism, those early consciousness-raising sessions, before the stunning authority of simple storytelling got drowned in a wave of bloated theory. Before she succumbs to that wave herself, Wolf manages to give us a girl's-eye view of two 'revolutions'--the sexual and feminist--that promised to set young women free, only to spawn new ways of disempowering them."

Erica Jong

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