Nancy Friday – författare

Nancy Fridays bok, i svensk översättning 1992, är en banbrytande undersökning av nittiotalets kvinnor och deras syn på erotik. Länge ansågs det att kvinnor inte hade sexuella fantasier. Friday var en av de första att öppet diskutera kvinnors sexualitet och i boken beskriver över 150 kvinnor från olika bakgrunder och sammanhang sina sexuella fantasier i detalj. Här samlas berättelser från verkliga kvinnor som beskriver sina mest intima och lustfyllda önskningar. Boken chockerade hela världen med sin ärlighet och blev bannlyst 1991 när den först kom ut på engelska. Berättelserna om kvinnors sexliv censurerades och ansågs inte vara ett lämpligt ämne. "Kvinnors sexuella fantasier" är på många sätt en feministisk klassiker som beskriver moderna kvinnors sexliv och erotiska fantasier på ett detaljerat sätt som öppnar upp för diskussion, samtidigt som det är kittlande för läsaren.Nancy Friday (1933-2017) var en amerikansk författare som framför allt skrev om kvinnlig sexualitet och frigörelse.

Drawing on her own and other women's lives, Nancy Friday shows that to a woman's character the key lies in her relationship with her mother - that first binding relationship which becomes the model for so much of a woman's adult relationships with men, and whose fetters constrain her sexuality, independence, and very selfhood. Friday believes that on the deepest level women will always be their mother's daughters, and that only when they recognize and understand this will they be able to find their own strength and direct their own lives.

This is a book about men who love women. But it is not a collection of love stories. It is a study of the secret, erotic fantasies that men have always kept hidden, a taboo-shattering investigation that reveals the deepest, most conflicting feelings that men have about women, men and their own sexuality. Men in Love goes beyond the socio-sexual cliché of woman seen as either madonna or whore to reveal the conflict of love and rage at the centre of men's emotions and erotic desires. Based on thousands of candid responses from men ranging from their teens to their sixties, Men in Love - startling and shocking - will change men's deepest feelings about their sexuality and make the women who care about them understand them as never before.

From the revolutionary author on female sexuality and liberation'A clever, compassionate woman... Women need people like Friday to write the script for them' Sunday Times'Nancy Friday - guru to a generation of feminists' Daily MailNancy Friday's sexually and socially empowering international bestsellers My Secret Garden and Forbidden Flowers revealed that women possess erotic imaginations at least as inventive and powerful as those of men.First published in the 1990s, Women on Top looks at a new generation of women and asks: what are women's sexual fantasies today? How have they responded to the changes brought about by feminism, and the sexual freedom it provided?In a world wallpapered with erotic images, but which still denies them full sexual freedom, women are more determined than ever that they'll be 'nice girls' no longer. Explicit, iconoclastic, often shocking, these erotic stories - angry, lustful, tender and dark - blow apart the old social and sexual taboos. Nothing is forbidden.Praise for Nancy Friday'What Friday's book revealed was that, for some of us, the sex we have in our head may be more stimulating than the physical nuts and bolts of any coupling ... unconstrained by assumed social conventions, self-consciousness or ... provocative ... revolutionary.' Gillian Anderson in Want

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 Nancy Friday began her research for My Mother/My Self in the early 1970’s no work existed that explored the unique interaction between mother and daughter. Today psychotherapists throughout the world acknowledge that if women are to be able to love without possessing, to find work that fulfills them, and to discover their full sexuality, they must first acknowledge their identity as separate from their mother’s. Nancy Friday’s book played a major role in that acceptance. The greatest gift a good mother can give remains unquestioning love planted deep in the first year of life, so deep and anassailable that the tiny child grown to womanhood is never held back by the fear of losing that love, no matter what her own choice in love, sexuality, or work may be.Through candid self-disclosure and hundreds of interviews, Friday investigates a generational legacy and reveals the conflicting feelings of anger, hate, and love the daughter’s hold for their mothers–and why they so often “become” that mother themselves.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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.

This is a book about men who love women. But it is not a collection of love stories. It is a study of the secret, erotic fantasies that men have always kept hidden, a taboo-shattering investigation that reveals the deepest, most conflicting feelings that men have about women, men and their own sexuality. Men in Love goes beyond the socio-sexual cliché of woman seen as either madonna or whore to reveal the conflict of love and rage at the centre of men's emotions and erotic desires. Based on thousands of candid responses from men ranging from their teens to their sixties, Men in Love - startling and shocking - will change men's deepest feelings about their sexuality and make the women who care about them understand them as never before.

I denna klassiker utforskar Nancy Friday relationen mellan mor och dotter, och vikten den har i personlig utveckling. Att en kvinna kan inte utvecklas till fullo innan hon har separerat sitt jag från sin mor är den drivande tesen. En sårig relation mellan de två kan leda till många svårigheter i livet. Det är också en relation som påverkar alla andra relationer i livet - speciellt den till män. Friday använder sig av djupt personliga erfarenheter med sin egen mor och hundratals intervjuer för att dyka djupare i ämnet - och varför så många döttrar blir till sina mödrar ... Nancy Friday (1933-2017) skrev ett flertal viktiga verk om kvinnors sexualitet och relationer under 70-talet och var aktiv som författare ändå in på 90-talet. Hennes verk har hyllats som viktiga milstolpar.

« Mais quelle que soit l''époque où vous lirez ces lignes, n''oubliez pas que les fantasmes érotiques ne sont jamais datés : toute la littérature érotique, d''"Histoire d''O" jusqu''à Anaïs Nin et Henry Miller, continue à produire son effet parce que la sexualité humaine ne change pas ; c''est seulement le rideau de la répression qui peut se lever ou retomber. »Presque vingt ans après son premier livre et bestseller international, "Mon jardin secret" (1973), Nancy Friday revenait avec "L''Empire des femmes" à ce qui l''avait rendue célèbre, en explorant cette fois-ci les fantasmes de femmes dont la génération avait suivi la révolution sexuelle et l''apparition du mouvement féministe. Du fantasme de domination à celui de la bonne mère, en passant par le lesbianisme, l''attrait de l''interdit et l''exhibitionnisme, dans un monde post "Cinquante nuances de Grey", ce livre est plus actuel que jamais !Sexe, fantasme, psychologie, témoignages, sexualité.