Nancy Friday
| Nancy Friday | ||
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| Background information | ||
| Birthdate: | Aug 27, 1933 | |
| Born as: | Nancy Colbert Friday | |
| Location: | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. | |
| Date of death: | Nov 5, 2017 - age 83 | |
| Location: | Manhattan, New York, U.S. | |
| Occupation: | Author | |
| Genre(s): | Female sexuality and liberation | |
Nancy Colbert Friday (✦August 27, 1933 – †November 5, 2017) was an American author who wrote on the topics of female sexuality and liberation. Her writings argue that women have often been reared under an ideal of womanhood, which was outdated and restrictive, and largely unrepresentative of many women's true inner lives, and that openness about women's hidden lives could help free women to truly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, participatory, and free to be accepted for who and what they are.
Personal life
Friday married novelist Bill Manville in 1967, separated from him in 1980, and divorced him in 1986. Her second husband was Norman Pearlstine, formerly the editor-in-chief of Time Inc. They were married at the Rainbow Room in New York City on July 11, 1988, and divorced in 2005.
In 2011, Friday sold her home in Key West and moved to New York City.
Nancy Friday died at her home in Manhattan on November 5, 2017, from complications of Alzheimer's disease. She was 84.
Bibliography
- My Secret Garden: Women's Sexual Fantasies, Simon & Schuster, 1973
- Forbidden Flowers: More Women's Sexual Fantasies, Simon & Schuster, 1975
- My Mother, My Self: 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, 1991
- The Power of Beauty, HarperCollins Publishers, 1996. Republished as 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, Sourcebooks, Inc., 2009
- More information is available at [ Wikipedia:Nancy_Friday ]
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