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Nancy Colbert Friday (born
August 27 1933) is an author who has written 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womanhood which was outdated and restrictive, and largely unrepresentative of many women's true inner lives, and that openness about women's hidden lives could help free women to truly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 isn't due to deliberate malice, but due to
social expectation, and that for women's and men's benefit alike it's healthier that both be able to be equally open, participatory and free to be accepted for who and what they are.
Biography
Born in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Friday grew up in
Charleston, South Carolina and was educated at
Ashley Hall in Charleston and
Wellesley College in
Massachusetts. She worked briefly as a reporter for the
San Juan Island Times and subsequently established herself as a magazine journalist in
New York,
England,
Italy and
France before turning to writing full time and publishing her first book,
My Secret Garden, in 1973. This book, which compiled interviews of women discussing their sexuality and fantasies, became a
bestseller; Friday has regularly returned to the interview format in her subsequent books on themes ranging from mothers and daughters to
sexual fantasies,
relationships,
jealousy,
envy,
feminism,
BDSM and
beauty. She hasn't written a book since the publication of
The Power of Beauty, which was released in 1996, and then renamed and rereleased in paper-back form in 1999. However, she contributed an interview of porn star
Nina Hartley to
XXX: 30 Porn Star Portraits a book by photographer
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders published in 2004.
Throughout the 80s and early 90s she was a frequent guest on television and radio programs such as
Politically Incorrect,
Oprah,
Larry King Live,
Good Morning America and
NPR’s
Talk of the Nation, Friday also has a web site, which was created in the mid 1990s, to complement the publication of
The Power of Beauty. Initially conceived as a forum for development of new work and interaction with her diverse audience, it hasn't been updated in several years. As of
2005, Friday is currently working on her first novel.
Despite the judgment of
Ms. magazine ("This woman isn't a
feminist”) she's predicated her career on the belief that
feminism and appreciation of men are not mutually exclusive concepts.
Personal life
Nancy 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 marrried at the
Rainbow Room in New York on July 11, 1988, and divorced in 2005.
She now resides in
Key West and New York City.
» Source: keywestliteraryseminar.org
Bibliography
- My Secret Garden: Women’s Sexual Fantasies, Simon & Schuster, 1973
- , Simon & Schuster, 1975
- , Delacorte Press, 1977
- , Dell Publishing, 1980
- Jealousy, M. Evans & Co., 1985
- , Simon & Schuster, 1991
- The Power of Beauty, HarperCollins Publishers, 1996
- , HarperCollins Publishers, 1999
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