Items related to My Secret Garden : Women's Sexual Fantasies

My Secret Garden : Women's Sexual Fantasies - Softcover

 
9780704332942: My Secret Garden : Women's Sexual Fantasies
View all copies of this ISBN edition:
 
 
Welcome to Nancy Friday's secret garden, a hidden place where ordinary women are free to express the sexual dreams they have never dared to confide before. Safe behind the walls of anonymity, hundreds of real women responded to Nancy Friday's call for details of their own most private fantasies. My Secret Garden is the daring compilation of those fantasies. When it first appeared, it created a storm of outrage in the media...and an equal sense of exhilaration for those women who finally were able to share their sisters' most intimate thoughts. Even now, in a new millennium, over then thousand women each year buy a new copy of this astounding classic of feminist literature. Join them in their exploration of the meaning of desire. Dare to read, dare to dream, and dare to discover the beautiful blossoms, the winding paths, and the hidden nooks of female sexuality.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

Review:
This book caused quite a ruckus when it was released 25 years ago because it directly quotes the sexual fantasies of dozens of women, ranging from the "very common" rape fantasy to lesbian affairs to unusually explicit scenarios that are unmentionable here. While author Nancy Friday maintains that My Secret Garden served to free millions of women from sexual oppression, there's still a need today to get rid of the guilt that millions more still feel when it comes to fantasizing, having orgasms, and making one's sexual wishes be known. "How could it be, you might ask," she writes, "that women today, at the turn of the century, would still think they were the only Bad Girls with erotic thoughts? What kind of prison is this that that women impose on themselves?"

My Secret Garden has the prurient appeal that made it one of the most passed-around books in high school study halls (it boasts chapters titled "Insatiability" and "The Thrill of the Forbidden"), but its premise, underneath the tales of lusty longings, is a serious one. Friday, also author of My Mother, My Self and Women on Top, is appalled at how parents, especially mothers, instill in their children a deep fear of sexual pleasure, and she advises how to do away with this stultifying force. While Friday can get a little histrionic at times ("Women's lust ... could bring down not only individuals, but society itself"), that doesn't make this book any less enthralling. --Erica Jorgensen

About the Author:
Nancy Friday is the author of seven books: My Secret Garden, Forbidden Flowers, Jealousy, Men in Love, My Mother/My Self, Women on Top, and The Power of Beauty. She lives in Key West, Florida, and in Connecticut.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

  • PublisherQuartet Books
  • Publication date1998
  • ISBN 10 0704332949
  • ISBN 13 9780704332942
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages308
  • Rating

Other Popular Editions of the Same Title

9781416567011: My Secret Garden

Featured Edition

ISBN 10:  ISBN 13:  9781416567011
Publisher: Gallery Books, 2008
Softcover

  • 9781304527196: My Secret Garden: Women's Sexual Fantasies Study Guide

    lulu.com, 2013
    Softcover

  • 9780671019877: My Secret Garden: Women's Sexual Fantasies

    Pocket..., 2003
    Softcover

  • 9780671742522: MY SECRET GARDEN

    Pocket..., 1995
    Softcover

  • 9780671271015: My Secret Garden

    Simon ..., 1973
    Hardcover

Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace

Stock Image

Nancy Friday
Published by Quartet Books (1998)
ISBN 10: 0704332949 ISBN 13: 9780704332942
New Paperback Quantity: 1
Seller:
Grumpys Fine Books
(Tijeras, NM, U.S.A.)

Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Prompt service guaranteed. Seller Inventory # Clean0704332949

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 49.59
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 4.25
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Nancy Friday
Published by Quartet Books (1998)
ISBN 10: 0704332949 ISBN 13: 9780704332942
New Paperback Quantity: 1
Seller:
Wizard Books
(Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.)

Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. New. Seller Inventory # Wizard0704332949

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 51.97
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 3.50
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Nancy Friday
Published by Quartet Books (1998)
ISBN 10: 0704332949 ISBN 13: 9780704332942
New Paperback Quantity: 1
Seller:
GoldenWavesOfBooks
(Fayetteville, TX, U.S.A.)

Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. New. Fast Shipping and good customer service. Seller Inventory # Holz_New_0704332949

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 51.87
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 4.00
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Nancy Friday
Published by Quartet Books (1998)
ISBN 10: 0704332949 ISBN 13: 9780704332942
New Paperback Quantity: 1
Seller:
GoldBooks
(Austin, TX, U.S.A.)

Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed. Seller Inventory # think0704332949

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 53.12
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 4.25
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Nancy Friday
Published by Quartet Books (1998)
ISBN 10: 0704332949 ISBN 13: 9780704332942
New Softcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
Front Cover Books
(Denver, CO, U.S.A.)

Book Description Condition: new. Seller Inventory # FrontCover0704332949

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 53.07
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 4.30
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Nancy Friday
Published by Quartet Books (1998)
ISBN 10: 0704332949 ISBN 13: 9780704332942
New Softcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
BennettBooksLtd
(LOS ANGELES, CA, U.S.A.)

Book Description Condition: New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 0.81. Seller Inventory # Q-0704332949

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 59.85
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 4.13
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Friday, Nancy
Published by Quartet Books Ltd (2001)
ISBN 10: 0704332949 ISBN 13: 9780704332942
New Paperback Quantity: 2
Seller:
Save With Sam
(North Miami, FL, U.S.A.)

Book Description Paperback. Condition: New. Brand New!. Seller Inventory # VIB0704332949

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 67.63
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Nancy Friday
Published by Quartet Books (1998)
ISBN 10: 0704332949 ISBN 13: 9780704332942
New Softcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
Books Unplugged
(Amherst, NY, U.S.A.)

Book Description Condition: New. Buy with confidence! Book is in new, never-used condition. Seller Inventory # bk0704332949xvz189zvxnew

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 88.10
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Friday, Nancy
Published by Quartet Books Ltd (2001)
ISBN 10: 0704332949 ISBN 13: 9780704332942
New Paperback Quantity: 1
Seller:
dsmbooks
(Liverpool, United Kingdom)

Book Description Paperback. Condition: New. New. book. Seller Inventory # D7S9-1-M-0704332949-6

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 171.42
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 31.54
From United Kingdom to U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds