Misconceptions by Naomi Wolf

Misconceptions by Naomi Wolf

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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.

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Misconceptions by Naomi Wolf

Every year, millions of women have their lives turned inside out by the experience of pregnancy. A contemporary woman find herself caught in an absurd paradox: while in the grip of one of the most primal, lonely, sensual and, in some ways, psychologically debilitating and physically dangerous experiences, she is overwhelmed by invasive, trivialising and infantilising cultural messages about what is happening to her - and who really owns the experience.
Wolf's many bold demands.. give us pause and present challenges: society should restructure itself to accommodate babies * Guardian *
Wolf's polemic is as clear and sure as ever * Observer *
Misconceptions reminds us that pregnancy and birth are still swaddled in layers of illusion, that our society remains criminally hypocritical toward mothers... Naomi Wolf goes much deeper here than she ever has before. She strips bare the mind of the pregnant woman and new mother with dazzling courage -- Erica Jong
Fiercely confident and uncompromising * Publishers Weekly *
Naomi Wolf is a bestselling American writer, known for her advocacy of feminism and progressive politics. She became internationally famous with the publication of her first book, The Beauty Myth, in 1991, and has gone on to write a subsequent six titles including: Fire with Fire, Promiscuities, Misconceptions and The Tree House.
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ISBN 13 9780099274162
ISBN 10 0099274167
Title Misconceptions
Author Naomi Wolf
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Year published 2002-10-03
Number of pages 288
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