About this title: Fresh from the success of "The Beauty Myth", cultural muckraker Naomi Wolf here trains her sights upon women's sexual rites of passage. For her research she relies upon her own memories, and those of her friends, of coming into womanhood during the 1970s and early 1980s--after The Pill and before AIDS. Wolf concentrates on the physical and ...
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780679416036ISBN:067941603X
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover shows wear, clean text and tight binding! Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 286 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: 1st ed
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 05/27/1997
ISBN-13:9780679416036ISBN:067941603X
Description: Good. 067941603X Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood-Used book in Good Condition. Binding Good. Shows wear from use. Text is 99% clean. Owner's Name. Binding: Hardcover ISBN13: 9780679416036 Size: 6 x 9.3 x.8 in. We are professional and prompt. read more
Description: Very Good. 067941603X 1st edition, 1st printing, Random House hardcover w/ DJ, 1997. Book is VG to VG+, w/ clean text, tight binding; unmarked. DJ is VG, w/ light edgewear. Free delivery confirmation. read more
Description: Very Good. 067941603X 1997 Random House; **1ST EDITION/PRINTING; HC; Cover: shelf & edge wears, o/w great; Back Cover: small edge tear; Fore-edge: minor age tanning/grime; Content: clean, tight & unmarked; Ships Quick. read more
Edition: first
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780679416036ISBN:067941603X
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Description: Fine. 0449907643 Paperback. Slightly tanned pages, otherwise, Binding, Cover/Title, and Pages in excellent condition. Thanks for your business! read more
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"The book has been published with 2 variant subtitles, "Promiscuities: A Secret History of Female Desire" and "Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood." As a cultural critique Promiscuities may seem limited by the narrow focus on Wolf's personal experiences. As a memoir, or an ethnological study, of growing up female in the liberal/radical social milieu of San Francisco in the 1970's, it is a worthwhile read. It is interesting to note that Wolf makes a case for the reintegration of coming-of-age ritual(s) in the life of teenagers, something which Steve Biddulph also proposes in Manhood."
"Interesting interpretation of young women coming of age in the late 60's early 70s. Sheds light on our continuing confusion about sexual norms and values since the Pill and AIDS and the current over sexualization of our children."
"Not Wolf's best work, more than a little self-indulgent, but interesting. I don't think she realizes just how rarified her adolescence was, but it is an interesting read."
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