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Als Nancy Friday in de vroege jaren 1970 begon met haar onderzoek voor "Hoe Mijn Moeder", bestond er geen werk dat de unieke interactie tussen moeder en dochter onderzocht. Vandaag de dag erkennen psychotherapeuten wereldwijd dat vrouwen, om te kunnen liefhebben zonder te bezitten, vervullend werk te vinden en hun volle seksualiteit te ontdekken, eerst hun identiteit als gescheiden van die van hun moeder moeten erkennen. Fridays boek speelde een cruciale rol bij deze acceptatie. Het grootste geschenk dat een goede moeder kan geven, blijft onvoorwaardelijke liefde, die diep in het eerste levensjaar geworteld is, zo diep en onaantastbaar dat het kleine kind, dat opgroeit tot vrouw, nooit wordt tegengehouden door de angst deze liefde te verliezen, ongeacht welke keuzes ze maakt met betrekking tot liefde, seksualiteit of werk. Door eerlijke zelfonthulling en honderden interviews onderzoekt Friday een generatie-overstijgend erfgoed en onthult de tegenstrijdige gevoelens van woede, haat en liefde die dochters voor hun moeders koesteren – en waarom ze zo vaak zelf tot deze moeder worden.

Met de opkomst van het feminisme en de entree van vrouwen op de arbeidsmarkt, maakte het aloude pact tussen schoonheid en macht, dat gebaseerd was op paternalistische uitgangspunten, langzaam maar zeker plaats voor een nieuwe verhouding tussen mannen en vrouwen, vrouwen en vrouwen en tussen ouders en kinderen. Nancy Friday gunt de lezer een geheel nieuw perspectief in een caleidoscoop vol belofte, bewegingsruimte en liefde voor iedereen, ongeacht leeftijd of geslacht. Aan de hand van haar eigen ervaringen neemt Friday de lezer mee in de geschiedenis van de patriarchale jaren vijftig, de revolutionaire jaren zestig, de seksuele jaren zeventig, de narcistische jaren tachtig tot de lege jaren negentig en naar een toekomst verlost van de dubbele obsessie van de macht van de schoonheid en de schoonheid van de macht.

A narrative of one woman's research into and search for jealousy in her own life, how she came to deal with it, and suggestions for others on how to handle jealousy in your own life.

Do You Like What You See In The Mirror?We all want to have it. Beauty. Today more than ever, our physical appearance determines how we judge ourselves and are judged by others. Like it or not, we live in the age of the Empty Package, when how we look takes precedence over such enduring qualities as integrity, kindness, and honesty. Now, in this provacative, entertaining book, the acclaimed author of the international bestseller "My Mother/My Self "reveals the truth about how looks affect our lives, and how life affects our looks.In this thoroughly honest and upbeat book, Nancy Friday probes the power, allure, and mystique of beauty including: fashion, fear of competition, shoes and sex, adolescent pain, envy, the double standard of aging, fairy tales, feminism, love, and more. Part memoir, part history, "Our Looks, Our Lives "will forever change the way we all look in the mirror.

Being the daughter of a pastor, Erica Collins never got a chance to live a normal life. When she lost her mother at a very young age, she questioned her faith in the Lord. Pastor Collins tried to rescue her faith by tying her everyday life even more closely to the church. Now 21 years old, Erica's only escape from her father and his Bible is when she hooks up with her best friend, Nicole. She finds a little freedom through Nicole's wild stories, with most of them being about her boyfriend, Mekco. Erica is all in, craving the attention and the lifestyle that Nicole has. Mekco is the leader of The Detroit Brick Boyz. Now that his best friend and the former leader of the crew, Pierre AKA P, is out of jail, Mekco is ready to put his boy back on without stepping down as the leader. Before getting knocked, Pierre was used to living the fast lifestyle and making money. After he's released, he is introduced to the beautiful Erica Collins. Once Erica enters his life, he questions if he has been living wrong all along. He soon finds himself falling for a young lady who didn't have any business looking his way. He wants to do right by her, but pursuing his position as the leader of the Brick Boyz and dealing with snakes from the past cause him to push her away. This pastor's daughter has some choices to make. Does she return to the flock, or fully enter the world of these kingpins?

This is a compilation of the many letters sent to the author by women sharing their most intimate sexual fantasies about topics such as masturbation, oral sex, sex with more than one man, lesbian sex and anal sex. In her extended introduction to these erotic fantasies the author compares the fantasies of today's women with those featured in her previous book, My Secret Garden. The author comes to the conclusion that despite everything the fantasies of the women of the 1990s are more liberated, more experimental and more outrageous than those of the women of the 1970s. More importantly, the author also notes a tendency for younger women to be freer of guilt about explicit sexual fantasizing. Nancy Friday is the author of Men in Love.

An extraordinary, explicitly masculine journey, "Men In Love develops a startlingly honest portrayal of what it means to be a man in contemporary America. Here are the unexpurgated dreams, fantasies and fetishes that excite and obsess men today. In creating this historic study, Nancy Friday listened -- without disapproval, apology or censorship -- to the candid responses of thousands of men aged fourteen through sixty. She gave them a legitimate arena where they could share their "secret gardens" -- the hidden and forbidden but nonetheless real and true. Much more than a litany of erotica, this unique volume doesn't tell us how men should love. It tells us how men do love -- a stunning insight into the desires that dwell within men's psyches... and their hearts.

Since the 1968 publication of Nancy Friday's outspoken erotic masterpiece, My Secret Garden, women's sexual lives have undergone a revolution - and so have their fantasy lives. No longer ashamed to express the wild, exciting and sometimes outrageous thoughts that bring them so much sexual pleasure, the women who reveal their sexual fantasies in Forbidden Flowers are even more explicit than those in Nancy Friday's first international bestseller and iconic erotic book. Forbidden Flowers is a celebration of a new sexual and social freedom, where today's women rejoice in the awareness of their own inner erotic lives. Nancy Friday's ground-breaking work adds an exhilarating new freedom to the ever-changing relationship between the sexes; it is a revealing and empowering insight into female sexuality and psychology.

When it first appeared, Nancy Friday's taboo-shattering bestseller "My Secret Garden" created a mixed storm of outrage and exhilaration. Those women who feared their erotic fantasies called it pornographic. Those women who read it recognized in its pages the hidden content of their own sexuality. More outspoken and graphic than any book before its time, "My Secret Garden" quickly became a classic study of female sexuality. Today, more than one million women hail this astonishing study as a groundbreaking book -- a liberating force adding a new dimension to their sexual fantasies and lives.

Nancy Friday patří k nejkontroverznějším postavám sexuální revoluce. Její kniha My Secret Garden (česky Moje tajemná zahrada, 1998) z roku 1973 se stala bestselerem. V Sexu bez zábran se věnuje tabuizovaným erotickým fantaziím a tužbám, které dnes díky bezbřehým možnostem, jež nabízí internet, mohou lidé lépe rozvíjet nebo sdílet s někým dalším.Při čtení knihy se, slovy jedné americké recenze, „budete trochu červenat a zrychlí se vám tep... Je to vzrušující četba. Ale copak život není vzrušující? A pokud ten váš není, čtěte pomalu.“