Nancy Friday: 12 books

The bestselling author of My Secret Garden exposes the wild and sexy fantasies that many of us have but are afraid to share. For over thirty years, Nancy Friday has written about eros, love, beauty, and seduction. Now she returns to the territory she pioneered during the sexual revolution—exploring...

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...

What is jealousy, and how does it undermine our closest relationships? Renowned journalist and author Nancy Friday tackles this difficult topic with compelling honesty and depth of insight. Here, Friday explores the feeling of fear and its connection to jealousy--specifically the fear of losing love...

Nancy Friday's groundbreaking books My Secret Garden and Forbidden Flowers offered an unprecedentedly detailed and honest look at the inner fantasy lives of ordinary women. In Women on Top, Friday returns to this topic, collecting detailed sexual fantasies from over 150 contemporary women from diverse...

Beauty and appearance play a pervasive role in our culture, argues Nancy Friday. Here, the author of the groundbreaking and controversial bestseller My Secret Garden delves into beauty's influence on popular media and the psyche of modern women. Combining in-depth cultural analysis with personal...

LULU is a fascinating heroine based on the equally fascinating life of her creator. Come take the journey with LULU as she grows from a precocious child in Charleston, S.C. into a co-ed at a college in the North. A journey that comes with all of the heartbreak of first love, motherly rivalry , brotherly...

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...

The publication of the groundbreaking expose on women's sexual fantasies, My Secret Garden, ushered in a revolution in women's sexual freedom of expression. In Forbidden Flowers, Nancy Friday reveals even more erotic, wild, and explicit fantasies expressed by women all over the world, from all ethnic...

Nancy Friday unternimmt eine Forschungsreise ins Labyrinth der "schwarzen Schwester der Liebe".In diesem umfassenden Werk über eine der stärksten menschlichen Triebfedern durchleuchtet die bekannte Autorin Gefühle, Beziehungen, Erfahrungen und Tatsachen, befragt Fachleute, interviewt...

Nach ihrem Welterfolg "Die sexuellen Phantasien der Frauen" untersucht die Psychologin Nancy Friday hier die sexuelle Phantasiewelt der Männer – direkt, offen und ohne falsche Scham. Die Bekenntnisse zeigen eindeutig: Kein Tabu setzt Schranken, wenn es darum geht, geheimste Wünsche und intimste Lüste auszuleben. (Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine frühere Ausgabe.)

First published in 1973, My Secret Garden ignited a firestorm of reactions across the nation--from outrage to enthusiastic support. Collected from detailed personal interviews with hundreds of women from diverse backgrounds, this book presents a bracingly honest account of women's inner sexual fantasy...

Was Frauen nicht einmal ihren Männern anvertrauen, hier ist es zu lesen: keine schamhaften Beichten, sondern ehrliche Berichte und Bekenntnisse. Was im geheimen Garten ihrer sexuellen Phantasien wächst und blüht, ihre geheimsten Wünsche, ihre unendlich erfinderischen Traumvorstellungen, hier werden...