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Women on Top

Nancy Friday's sexually and socially empowering international bestsellersMy Secret Gardenand Forbidden Flowersrevealed that women possess erotic imaginations at least as inventive and powerful as those of men. Women on Toplooks 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?

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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.

Audience
adult
Length
long · 559 pages

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