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Naomi Wolf

    12 novembre 1962

    Naomi Wolf è un'autrice le cui opere esplorano l'uguaglianza di genere, la giustizia sociale e la difesa della libertà. La sua scrittura approfondisce la complessa interazione tra identità, società e potere, offrendo ai lettori profonde intuizioni sulle lotte per la libertà e la giustizia. È conosciuta per la sua acuta analisi e il suo urgente appello alla riflessione critica sulle questioni sociali e politiche contemporanee. I contributi letterari di Wolf sfidano i lettori a confrontarsi profondamente con le forze che plasmano il nostro mondo.

    Naomi Wolf
    The Beauty Myth (Vintage Feminism Short Edition)
    The End of America
    Facing the Beast
    Fire with Fire
    Gold
    The Bodies of Others
    • The Bodies of Others

      The New Authoritarians, COVID-19 and The War Against the Human

      • 350pagine
      • 13 ore di lettura

      Achieving notable recognition, this book has secured a top spot on Amazon's Most Sold list and has been a bestseller across major platforms, including the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly. Its widespread acclaim highlights its impact and relevance in the nonfiction genre, appealing to a broad audience seeking insightful and engaging content.

      The Bodies of Others
      4,8
    • Gold

      • 218pagine
      • 8 ore di lettura

      Poems are conceived the way we are. They grow out of wild emotions, macerate for a while in their warm, thick juice... until your body cannot bear it any longer and you must push them out into words. I gave birth painfully first, to still-born things. I gave birth to foetuses... Then one day I tripped, fell, and gave life to Tears, Love, Desire and Angry Poundings. My poems tell the journey of a woman stumbling, struggling to stand back up and find her voice, but falling in love and hoping, hoping, with all her guts.

      Gold
      4,8
    • Most women embrace equality, but reject "feminism." In clear and brilliant prose, the author of the best-selling The Beauty Myth shows how this rift came about, and how to close it. A practical and inspiring road map for personal and political equality in our time.

      Fire with Fire
      4,5
    • The End of America

      Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot

      • 176pagine
      • 7 ore di lettura

      The book analyzes ten classic strategies employed by dictators to undermine open societies, drawing parallels with the policies and attitudes of the current U.S. administration. It explores how these tactics manifest in contemporary governance, highlighting the potential threats to democratic principles and civil liberties. Through this comparison, the author urges readers to recognize and resist the erosion of democratic values in modern politics.

      The End of America
      4,0
    • Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short formWITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOREvery day, women around the world are confronted with a dilemma - how to look. In a society embroiled in a cult of female beauty and youthfulness, pressure on women to conform physically is constant and all- pervading.

      The Beauty Myth (Vintage Feminism Short Edition)
      4,0
    • Vagina

      • 512pagine
      • 18 ore di lettura

      The embarrassment and alienation we often feel when the word 'vagina' comes up in conversation is fairly new. In this book, Naomi Wolf explains why the vagina deserves an understanding of its own cultural lineage and ancestry because, what is true of the female body in general, is more true of the vagina than of any other feminine aspect.

      Vagina
      3,9
    • The Beauty Myth

      How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women

      In the struggle for women's equality, there is one subject still shrouded in silence - women's compulsive pursuit of beauty. The myth of female beauty challenges every woman, every day of her life. The author exposes the tyranny of the beauty myth through the ages and its oppressive function today

      The Beauty Myth
      3,9
    • In this provocative and highly personal book, bestselling author Naomi Wolf explores a subject that has long been taboo in our society: women's sexual coming-of-age. Promiscuities brazenly exposes the truths behind the conflicting messages directed at young women during and after the sexual revolution. Drawing on surprising examples from the ancient and recent past, along with vivid recollections of her own youth, Wolf shows how our "liberated" culture still fears and distorts female passion. She also shares fascinating true stories that illustrate the fantasies and sometimes crippling realities women pass through on their way toward erotic and emotional discovery. A landmark book, Promiscuities is a call to women of all ages to reclaim and celebrate their sexuality.

      Promiscuities. The Secret Struggle for Womanhood
      3,8
    • Every year, millions of women have their lives turned inside out by the experience of pregnancy. This book takes a critical look at the powerful vested interests in the pregnancy business and at the social message coming at women: an amalgam of sentimentality, psychologically dangerous half-truths and conflicting ideologies.

      Misconceptions: Truth, lies and the unexpected on the journey to motherhood
      3,7
    • Promiscuities

      An Opinionated History of Female Desire

      • 288pagine
      • 11 ore di lettura

      Exploring the often-taboo topic of women's sexual coming-of-age, bestselling author Naomi Wolf offers a provocative and deeply personal perspective. She delves into the complexities of female sexuality, challenging societal norms and encouraging open dialogue about women's experiences and desires. Through her insights, Wolf aims to empower women to embrace their sexuality and confront the cultural narratives that shape their lives.

      Promiscuities
      3,7
    • Feminist thinker Naomi Wolf, presents her most personal book yet - a stirring portrait of her father and his unconventional wisdom on how to live, love, and see the world. Originally published: New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005; London: Virago, 2006.

      The treehouse : eccentric wisdom on how to live, love and see
      3,4
    • "In "The Beauty Myth", Naomi Wolf sought to change the way in which women see themselves in relation to their bodies. Now she focuses on how they see themselves in relation to power. She argues that the feminist movement has to change if it is to speak to a new generation of women, and that, even as women are gaining more ground than ever before, a wariness of feminist orthodoxies keeps them away from the only movement capable of putting political clout behind their personal success. The book represents a call to women to throw off centuries of conditioning about the relationship between power and femininity."--Www.amazon.co.uk (Feb. 1, 2011.).

      Fire with fire : the new female power and how it will change the 21st century
      3,7
    • Outrages

      • 400pagine
      • 14 ore di lettura

      A NOTE FROM MARGO BALDWIN, President and Publisher, Chelsea Green Publishing “Naomi Wolf’s Outrages is a vitally important book to publish right now, not just because of its literary scholarship, which is superb, but because it speaks so clearly to the present societal moment. It’s a moment that is incredibly dangerous, a potential turning point when marginalized people and groups are targeted, silenced and often jailed. It’s a time when information counter to the official narrative is censored and erased from the public sphere, when books and articles and even scientific research are banned and labeled as “fake news” or “dangerous misinformation.” Outrages shows what happens when a society, in this case Victorian England, becomes obsessed with contagion and impurity and criminalizes “immoral” acts and “dangerous” ideas. . . . Read it and weep, not just for those who suffered in a distant Victorian time but for those who suffer still from the draconian laws that era produced and which are still in effect all over the world today.”

      Outrages
      3,2
    • Valse Verwachting

      Waarheid, leugens en het onverwachte op weg naar het moederschap

      • 322pagine
      • 12 ore di lettura

      Kritische analyse van de maatschappelijke bejegening van (aanstaande) moeders, met name in de Verenigde Staten.

      Valse Verwachting
      4,0
    • Die bekannte Autorin von "Der Mythos Schönheit" öffnet in ihrem klugen Buch unseren Blick für die das ganze Leben prägende Zeit, in der Mädchen zu Frauen werden. Warum liegen die ersten bewußt sexuellen Erfahrungen im seltsam unscharfen Bereich zwischen dem Ausgesprochenen und dem Unausgesprochenen? Wie kommen Mädchen zu einem positiven sexuellen Selbstgefühl der Weiblichkeit?§Naomi Wolf erzählt mit großer Offenherzigkeit über ihre ersten sexuellen Erfahrungen und die ihrer Freundinnen. Im Zentrum steht das erotische Gedächtnis einer Frauengeneration. Die Autorin berichtet vom Gekicher und vom Girls' Talk, von unschuldigen Abenteuern und frühen Durchtriebenheiten. Wir erfahren von lesbischen Intimitäten, von den erotischen Trockenübungen und den Zufallsbegegnungen und lernen die etwas enttäuschende Geschichte vom endgültigen Verlust der Unschuld kennen.

      Vom Ende der Unschuld oder das sexuelle Drama, eine Frau zu werden
      4,0
    • Im Grunde böse

      COVID-19, die neuen Machteliten und ihr Krieg gegen die Menschlichkeit

      • 382pagine
      • 14 ore di lettura
      Im Grunde böse
      4,0
    • Eine fulminante Verteidigung der Demokratie Demokratie muss mit Zivilcourage verteidigt werden, damit Diktaturen daran gehindert werden, auf die Bühne der Geschichte zurückzukehren. Mit Scharfblick und exzellenten historischen Analysen beschreibt Naomi Wolf zehn Schritte, die den Niedergang funktionierender Demokratien charakterisieren. In Zeiten von Bürgerüberwachung, Datenspeicherung und Sicherheitshysterie ist dieses Buch aktueller denn je.

      Wie zerstört man eine Demokratie
      3,5
    • Die Stärke der Frauen

      • 416pagine
      • 15 ore di lettura

      Die überzeugte Feministin Naomi Wolf will - so paradox dies auch klingen mag - den Feminismus überflüssig machen. Wenn die Frauen sich auf ihre eigentliche Kraft und ihre Energien besinnen, wenn sie endlich den Mut und die Lust haben, sich ihren Teil der gesellschaftlichen Macht zu holen, wenn sie sich dabei weder von Männern noch von radikalen Feministinnen, noch von ihrem eigenen Harmoniebedürfnis einschüchtern lassen, dann sind wir alle endlich da, wo wir hinmüssen - auf dem Weg zur echten Gleichberechtigung, zur wahren Demokratie.

      Die Stärke der Frauen
      3,0
    • De twaalf wetten van mijn vader

      • 256pagine
      • 9 ore di lettura

      Diepgaande gesprekken tussen vader en dochter over thema's als geluk, creativiteit, liefde en begaafdheid.

      De twaalf wetten van mijn vader