Nancy Friday

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Nancy Friday (born August 27, 1933 in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , † November 5, 2017 in Manhattan , New York ) was an American author of mainly popular psychological works on the subject of sexual self-determination . Her studies on the sexuality of women achieved a high level of awareness .

Life

Friday grew up in Charleston and attended Wellesley College women's college near Boston . She worked briefly as a reporter for the San Juan Island Times newspaper , then established herself as a magazine journalist in New York, England, Italy and France before starting full-time writing in 1963.

Friday divorced her second husband, Norman Pearlstine (Editor-in-Chief of Time Inc. ) in 2005, and lived in Key West, Florida and New York City. Despite the feminist Ms. magazine's verdict "This woman is not a feminist, " she built her career on the belief that feminism and the appreciation of men are not mutually exclusive.

Publications

In 1973 she published her first book, called My Secret Garden . In this book interviews with women are compiled in which the women talk about their sexuality and about their erotic fantasies. Her first international bestseller in 1977 was My Mother / My Self: The Daughter's Search for Identity , in which she wrote that women of her generation were raised by their mothers according to a pre-feminist, outdated and restrictive ideal of femininity that they had to fight for themselves to free themselves and their emotional life. She was of the opinion that the values ​​of this ideal were not passed on as a result of intentional malice, but corresponded to the time.

As a writer, she repeatedly reverted to interview formats in her publications on topics such as mother-daughter relationships, sexual fantasies, love relationships , BDSM , jealousy , envy , feminism and beauty . With these honest representations in simple language, she wanted to help other women to learn to free themselves from constraints and to discover their needs. She tried to convey that it is better for the health of men and women when both are able to be sensitive and open to be accepted for who they are. Friday made sexuality communicable.

In Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women's Sexual Fantasies , Friday summarized the results of his own surveys of women and came to the conclusion that today's women are “like a new race” compared to the generation of their mothers. She describes the fantasies of female interlocutors who revolve around the humiliation, rape and submission of men and treat them as exclusive sexual objects.

Friday has been a regular guest on TV and radio programs such as Politically Incorrect ( ABC ), Oprah , Larry King Live , Good Morning America (ABC) and Talk of the Nation ( NPR ). She maintained a website that serves as a forum for New York development and dialogue with her audience. Friday has been working on a novel since 2005.

indexing

The author's qualitative research on sexual fantasies was published in Germany under the headings Die Sexlichen Fantasien der Frauen and Die Sexlichen Fantasien der Männer and was temporarily subject to indexing .

bibliography

  • My Secret Garden: Women's Sexual Fantasies. Simon & Schuster, New York 1973
  • Forbidden Flowers: More Women's Sexual Fantasies. Simon & Schuster, New York 1975
    • Prohibited fruits. The secret fantasies of women (= Goldmann-Taschenbuch 12546). Goldmann, 1994 (German EA), ISBN 978-3-442-12546-3 .
  • My Mother, Myself: The Daughter's Search for Identity. Delacorte Press, 1977
  • Men in Love, Men's Sexual Fantasies: The Triumph of Love Over Rage. Dell Publishing, 1980
  • Jealousy. M. Evans & Co., 1985
  • Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women's Sexual Fantasies. Simon & Schuster, New York 1991
    • Liberation to Lust - New Sexual Fantasies of Women. Bertelsmann, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-570-01294-8
    • Liberation for lust - women and their sexual fantasies (= Goldmann-Taschenbuch 12471, complete paperback edition). Goldmann 1993, ISBN 3-442-12471-9 .
  • The power of beauty. HarperCollins Publishers, 1996
    • The power of beauty. About the rediscovery of female strength. Goldmann, 1999, ISBN 3-442-12789-0
  • Our Looks, Our Lives: Sex, Beauty, Power and the Need to be Seen. HarperCollins Publishers, 1999
  • Beyond My Control: Forbidden Fantasies in an Uncensored Age. Sourcebook Trade, 2009, ISBN 978-1402218545

literature

  • Women are the enemy of women, The feuded feminist Nancy Friday on the fight, criticism and the opposite sex . Süddeutsche Zeitung, No. 124, June 3, 1997, p. 14
  • Claudius Seidl : Nonsense and Sensuality, A woman who confidently circles around herself: Nancy Friday and her new book “The Power of Beauty” . Süddeutsche Zeitung, No. 134, June 14, 1997, p. 92
  • Sophie von Lenthe (Ed.): The Future of Women: Marilyn French, Susan Faludi, Julie Burchill, Alice Schwarzer, Nancy Friday and many others . Goldmann, Munich, 1993, ISBN 3-442-12470-0
  • Annette Schipprack: "Can be fatal": The American bestselling author Nancy Friday on the jealousy of the future . Focus , 10/1995, March 6, 1995, p. 186

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Anita Gates: Nancy Friday, 84, Best-Selling Student of Gender Politics, Dies . nytimes.com , November 5, 2017, accessed November 6, 2017.
  2. ↑ Peter Stolle: The rake in the garden of earthly delights . Der Spiegel 7/1986, February 10, 1982, pp. 195-202, accessed on November 6, 2017.

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personal data
SURNAME Friday, Nancy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Pittsburgh
DATE OF DEATH 5th November 2017
Place of death Manhattan