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Nancy Friday

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Philosophy, Health, Mind & Body

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Nancy Colbert Friday (born August 27, 1933) is an author who has written on the topics of female sexuality and liberation.

'Nancy Friday's successful fantasy revelations (My Secret Garden, Forbidden Flowers)' have seen her placed among 'the feminist erotic pioneers'. Her writings argue that women have often been reared under an ideal of womanhood which was outdated and restrictive, and largely unrepresentative of many women's true inner lives, and that openness about women's hidden lives could help free women to truly feel able to enjoy being themselves. She asserts that this is not due to deliberate malice, but due to social expectation, and that for women's and men's benefit alike it is healthier that both be able to be equally open, parti...more

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Books by Nancy Friday

Average rating: 3.53 · 1,706 ratings · 143 reviews · 10 distinct works

	My Secret Garden 3.60 avg rating — 604 ratings — published 1973 — 17 editions	My rating:
	My Mother/My Self: The Daughter's Search for Identity 3.42 avg rating — 335 ratings — published 1977 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Women On Top 3.60 avg rating — 293 ratings — 12 editions	My rating:
	Men in Love 3.55 avg rating — 197 ratings	My rating:
	Forbidden Flowers 3.48 avg rating — 166 ratings — published 1975 — 14 editions	My rating:
	The Power of Beauty: Men, Women, and Sex Appeal Since Feminism 3.43 avg rating — 44 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Jealousy 3.34 avg rating — 35 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	Beyond My Control: Forbidden Fantasies in an Uncensored Age 2.64 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Our Looks/Our Lives: Sex, Beauty, Power, and the Need to Be Seen 3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1999	My rating:
	A Reader's Guide to the Power of Beauty 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating: