by Naomi Wolf · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099205913
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«Promiscuities: A Secret History of Female Desire» is Naomi Wolf's social criticism essay, published by Vintage in paperback (256 pages, in English).
Naomi Wolf follows four young women, including herself, from their adolescence in the 1970s to analyse how culture shapes and limits female desire. The journey combines academic texts, diaries, testimonies and fantasies, and spans eras such as Victorian repression and the supposed liberation of the nineties, to argue that women's sexuality has historically been domesticated by social discourses.
The book was originally published in 1997; this edition, in March 1998.
A read for those interested in cultural history, gender studies and feminist essays.
Naomi Rebekah Wolf is an American feminist author, journalist, and conspiracy theorist. After the 1991 publication of her first book, The Beauty Myth, Wolf became a prominent figure in the third wave of the feminist movement. Feminists including Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan praised her work. Others, including Camille Paglia, criticized it. In the 1990s, Wolf was a political advisor to the presidential campaigns of Bill Clinton and Al Gore.
