Authors: Naomi Wolf
The Beauty Myth (55 page)
‘At last a new generation of women writers is addressing the powerful issue of female sexuality. I gulped this wonderful book down in one sitting, like a novel. Brava Naomi Wolf for your courage, your intelligence, your lucid prose’
Erica Jong
NAOMI WOLF
Misconceptions
‘Naomi Wolf goes much deeper here than she ever has before’
Erica Jong
‘Wolf’s many bold demands . . . give us pause and present challenges; society should restructure itself to accommodate babies.’
Guardian
‘Wolf’s polemic is as clear and sure as ever’
Observer
Every year, millions of women have their lives turned inside out by the experience of pregnancy. A contemporary woman finds herself caught in an absurd paradox: while in the grip of one of the most primal, lonely, sensual and in some ways, psychologically debilitating and physically dangerous experiences, she is overwhelmed by invasive, trivialising and infantilising cultural messages about what is happening to her – and who really owns the experience.
‘Fiercely confident and uncompromising.’
Publishers Weekly
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Epub ISBN: 9781448190072
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Published by Vintage 1991
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Copyright © Naomi Wolf 1990
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