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020			_a9781446476239
100	1		_aNaomi Wolf
245	1		_aPromiscuities
260			_bRandom House
300			_a288 pages
520			_aBy 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. Embarking on a voyage of discovery, she illustrates how flawed and prescribed are the notions of what women want, and how these change through the ages - from Taoist techniques for giving women pleasure, to Victorian repression, and the so-called liberated nineties. Drawing on scholarly texts, secret diaries, real life and fantasy, she demonstrates that female sexuality is wilder, more demanding and more powerful than our culture dares to accept.
650			_aWomen
650			_aSociology
999			_c15607 _d15607