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Nancy Friday

scrittrice statunitense
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Nancy Friday, all'angrafe Nancy Colbert Friday (Pittsburgh, 27 agosto 1933 – New York, 5 novembre 2017), è stata una scrittrice statunitense, che si è ampiamente occupata della sessualità femminile e della liberazione sessuale[1].

I suoi scritti sostengono che le donne sono state cresciute con un ideale di femminilità obsoleto e restrittivo, in gran parte non rappresentativo della vita intoriore di molte donne, e che l'apertura sulle vite segrete delle donne può aiutare le donne libere di essere pienamente loro stesse.[senza fonte] Afferma inoltre che ciò non sarebbe dovuto a una malizia deliberata, ma a dinamiche di gruppo e aspettativa sociale, e che per il beneficio sia delle donne che degli uomini, è maggiormente salutare che entrambi i sessi siano aperti, partecipativi e libere di essere accettati per quello che sono.[senza fonte]

Biografia

Nancy Friday was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Walter F. Friday and Jane Colbert Friday (later Scott[2]). She grew up in Charleston, South Carolina, and attended the only local girls' college-preparatory school, Ashley Hall, where she graduated in 1951.[3] She then attended Wellesley College in Massachusetts, where she graduated in 1955.[4] She worked briefly as a reporter for the San Juan Island Times and subsequently established herself as a magazine journalist in New York City, England, and France before turning to writing full-time.

Her first book, published in 1973, was My Secret Garden, a compilation of her interviews with women discussing their sexuality and fantasies, which became a bestseller. Friday 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. After the publication of The Power of Beauty (released in 1996, and then renamed and re-released in paperback form in 1999), she wrote little, contributing an interview of porn star Nina Hartley to XXX: 30 Porn Star Portraits, a book published in 2004 by photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, with her final book being Beyond My Control: Forbidden Fantasies in an Uncensored Age, published in 2009.

Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s 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. She also created a website in the mid-1990s, to complement the publication of The Power of Beauty. Initially conceived as a forum for the development of new work and interaction with her diverse audience, it was not updated in later years.

Despite the judgment of Ms. magazine ("This woman is not a feminist"),[5] she predicated her career on the belief that feminism and the appreciation of men are not mutually exclusive concepts.[senza fonte]

Nancy Friday è morta nella sua casa di Manhattan a causa di complicazioni della malattia di Alzheimer il 5 novembre 2017, all'età di 84 anni..[1]

Vita privata

Nel 1967 Nancy Friday sposa Bill Manville, da cui si separa nel 1980, divorziando da lui nel 1986. L'11 luglio 1988 si risposa con Norman Pearlstine, ex capo redattore della Time Inc.. Il matrimonio viene celebrato alla Rainbow Room di New York. I due divorziano nel 2005.

Nel 2011, Nancy Friday vende la propria casa di Key West, in Florida, trasferendosi a New York.[6][7]

Temi trattati

Friday explained how "in the late 1960s I chose to write about women's sexual fantasies because the subject was unbroken ground, a missing piece of the puzzle ... at a time in history when the world was suddenly curious about sex and women's sexuality."[8] The backdrop was a widespread belief that "women do not have sexual fantasies ... are by and large destitute of sexual fantasy."[9]

Friday considered that "more than any other emotion, guilt determined the story lines of the fantasies in My Secret Garden . . . women inventing ploys to get past their fear that wanting to reach orgasm made them Bad Girls."[10] Her later book, My Mother/My Self, 'grew immediately out of My Secret Garden's questioning of the source of women's terrible guilt about sex."[11]

When she returned 20 years later to her original topic of women's fantasies in Women on Top, it was in the belief that "the sexual revolution" had stalled: "it was the greed of the 1980s that dealt the death blow . . . the demise of healthy sexual curiosity."[12]

Friday, like other feminists, was especially concerned with the controlling role of the images of "Nice Woman . . . Nice Girl"[13]—of being "bombarded from birth with messages about what a 'good woman' is . . . focused so hard and so long on never giving in to 'selfishness.'"[14] However, as feminism itself developed "a stunning array of customs, opinions, moral values, and beliefs about how the world of women . . . should conduct itself,"[15] so too it ran into the difficulty of moralism versus human nature—the fact that "feminism—any political philosophy—does not adequately address sexual psychology" eventually sparking the 'feminist "sex wars" . . . from the early 1980s"[16] onwards. Against that backdrop, Friday's evidential and empirical concerns continue to address the "open question of how many of their sexual freedoms the young women . . . will retain, how deeply they have incorporated them."[17]

Accoglienza

"Critics have labeled Friday's books unscientific, because the author solicited responses,"[18] thus potentially biasing the contributor pool.

My Secret Garden was greeted by a "salvo from the media accusing me of inventing the whole book, having made up all the fantasies"; My Mother/My Self was "initially . . . violently rejected by both publishers and readers";[11] while Women on Top "was heavily criticized for its graphic and sensational content."[18]

Friday was also criticized for her reaction to the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal affair, which critics interpreted as sexist. The journalist Jon Ronson wrote "In February 1998, the feminist writer Nancy Friday was asked by the New York Observer to speculate on Lewinsky's future. 'She can rent out her mouth,' she replied."[19]

Opere

  • (EN) My Secret Garden. Women's Sexual Fantasies, Simon & Schuster, 1973.
  • (EN) Forbidden Flowers. More Women's Sexual Fantasies, Simon & Schuster, 1975.
    • Il mio giardino segreto. Fantasie e sogni erotici femminili, Venus Press, 1982.
  • (EN) My Mother, My Self. The Daughter's Search for Identity, Delacorte Press, 1977.
  • (EN) Men in Love, Men's Sexual Fantasies. The Triumph of Love Over Rage, Dell Publishing, 1980.
  • (EN) Jealousy, M. Evans & Co., 1985.
  • (EN) Women on Top. How Real Life Has Changed Women's Sexual Fantasies, Simon & Schuster, 1991.
  • (EN) The Power of Beauty, HarperCollins Publishers, 1996.
    • (EN) Our Looks, Our Lives. Sex, Beauty, Power and the Need to be Seen, HarperCollins Publishers, 1999.
  • (EN) Beyond My Control. Forbidden Fantasies in an Uncensored Age, Naperville, Illinois, Sourcebooks, 2009, ISBN 1402218540.

Note

  1. ^ a b (EN) Anita Gates, Nancy Friday, 84, Author On Women’s Sexuality, But Not a Feminist, Dies, in The New York Times, 5 novembre 2017, p. D7. URL consultato il 5 novembre 2017.
  2. ^ http://fultonhistory.com/newspaper%208/Niagara%20Falls%20NY%20Gazette/Niagara%20Falls%20NY%20Gazette%201948%20may-Jun%20Grayscale/Niagara%20Falls%20NY%20Gazette%201948%20may-Jun%20Grayscale%20-%200099.pdf Template:Bare URL PDF
  3. ^ Bill Thompson, Alumna Humphreys to read from work, in The Post and Courier, February 8, 2009.
  4. ^ Barbara Rowes, Author Nancy Friday explains why men's sexual fantasies are different from women's, in People, Time Inc., June 30, 1980.
  5. ^ Nancy, My secret garden: women's sexual fantasies, Pocket Books, 2008. Details.
    Quote:
    When I sat down to write this book, I thought the feminists would embrace it. I didn't realize that it was unwelcome at Feminist Headquarters until a former friend turned editor at Ms. magazine, gave me a rap on the knuckles, proclaiming that "Ms. will decide what women's fantasies are." Soon after, a review in that magazine followed with the opening line "...this woman is not a feminist."
  6. ^ (EN) June Keith, Nancy Friday's Saturday Sale, su Postcards From Paradise, Blogspot, 9 giugno 2011 (archiviato dall'url originale il 25 aprile 2012).
  7. ^ (EN) About the Participants, "The Memoir", January 13-16, 2000, Nancy Friday, su The Memoir, Key West Literary Seminar, Inc. (archiviato dall'url originale l'11 agosto 2007).
  8. ^ Nancy, Women on top: how real life has changed women's sexual fantasies, Pocket Star Books, 1991, pp. 6–7.
  9. ^ Allan Fromme, quoted in Friday, Top p. 7
  10. ^ Friday, Top p. 4-5
  11. ^ a b Friday, Top p. 8
  12. ^ Friday, Top p. 11-13
  13. ^ Friday, Top p. 20-22
  14. ^ Sonia Johnson, Readings in feminist rhetorical theory, Waveland Press, 2006.
  15. ^ Paula Gunn Allen, Introduction to Paula Gunn Allen in Readings p. 210
  16. ^ Bright, p. 382 and p. 379
  17. ^ Friday, Top p. 21
  18. ^ a b Dawn B. Sova, Literature suppressed on sexual grounds, Facts On File, 2006, pp. 281–282. Preview.
  19. ^ Jon Ronson, Monica Lewinsky: 'The shame sticks to you like tar', in The Guardian, April 22, 2016.

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