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Erica Jong (née Mann; born March 26, 1942) is an American novelist, satirist, and poet, known particularly for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying. The book became famously controversial for its attitudes towards female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism .
Fear of Flying is a 1973 novel by Erica Jong.It became controversial for its portrayal of female sexuality, and figured in the development of second-wave feminism.. The novel is written in the first person, narrated by its protagonist, Isadora Zelda White Stollerman Wing, a 29-year-old poet who has published two books of poetry.
The award-winning author of 'Fear of Flying' on Jenny Offill, 'Leaves of Grass,' and the Book That Everyone Should Read.
Feminist literature is fiction or nonfiction which supports the feminist goals of defining, establishing and defending equal civil, political, economic and social rights for women. It often identifies women's roles as unequal to those of men – particularly as regards status, privilege and power – and generally portrays the consequences to ...
Barbara Mor (1936–2015), American feminist of the Goddess movement; Robin Morgan (born 1941), American poet, author, political theorist and activist; Eileen Myles (born 1949) American poet and writer, Guggenheim Fellowship recipient and LGBT activist; Kishwar Naheed (born 1940), Urdu poet from Pakistan known for her pioneering feminist poetry
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics, bell hooks (2000) Feminist Theory (2000–present) Manifesta: Young women, Feminism and the Future, Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards (2000) Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation, Andrea Dworkin (2000) "Shakespeare's Sonnets and the Mystique of the Sheikh", Annie Laurie Gaylor ...
Maxine Hong Kingston (Chinese: 湯婷婷; [2] born Maxine Ting Ting Hong; [3] October 27, 1940) is an American novelist. She is a Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated with a BA in English in 1962. [4]
A French author and anatomist, Charles Estienne undertakes anatomical dissection on a massive scale. He publishes all of his findings in his book Dissection Des Parties Du Corps Humain, which translates to Dissection Of The Parts Of The Human Body. Estienne’s findings in regard to the clitoris are anatomically incorrect and fundamentally flawed.