Naomi Wolf Knihy

Kniha Naomi Wolfové, autorky úspěšné a oceňované knihy Mýtus krásy, se v roce 2012 stala mezinárodním bestsellerem. Wolfová patří mezi autorky třetí vlny feminismu, pro něž je sex nejen osobně důležitý a potřebný, ale je také závažným sociálním tématem. Svou nejnovější knihu se rozhodla napsat na základě vlastní traumatické zkušenosti se sexuální dysfunkcí, která jejím sexuálním prožitkům vzala duchovní rozměr. Tato pro ni zásadní hodnota sexuálního života se stává předmětem jejího širšího, kulturně-společenského průzkumu, který v knize zaznamenává. Nebo přesněji - patří k jejím hlavním tématům. Stejně důležitá je totiž snaha Wolfové vyložit vaginu čili ženskou sexualitu neurofyziologicky a psychofyziologicky. Autorka poutavě spojuje osobní pocity a postoje s vědeckými fakty; zkoumá možnosti ženského sexuálního prožívání optikou novodobé kulturní historie a feminismu. Při pátrání po vědomí vaginy uvažuje o vlivu tradičního společenského uspořádání i ženské emancipace na spokojený sexuální život. Mnohým jistě překvapí - vagina se v této nové perspektivě stává bytostí i bohyní; v jejím propojení s mozkem ožívá duše ženy, a pouze pokud je tato duše spokojená, je šťastná a spokojená i žena samotná.

Achieving notable recognition, this book has secured a top spot on Amazon's Most Sold list and has been a bestseller across major platforms, including the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly. Its widespread acclaim highlights its impact and relevance in the nonfiction genre, appealing to a broad audience seeking insightful and engaging content.

Poems are conceived the way we are. They grow out of wild emotions, macerate for a while in their warm, thick juice... until your body cannot bear it any longer and you must push them out into words. I gave birth painfully first, to still-born things. I gave birth to foetuses... Then one day I tripped, fell, and gave life to Tears, Love, Desire and Angry Poundings. My poems tell the journey of a woman stumbling, struggling to stand back up and find her voice, but falling in love and hoping, hoping, with all her guts.

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The book analyzes ten classic strategies employed by dictators to undermine open societies, drawing parallels with the policies and attitudes of the current U.S. administration. It explores how these tactics manifest in contemporary governance, highlighting the potential threats to democratic principles and civil liberties. Through this comparison, the author urges readers to recognize and resist the erosion of democratic values in modern politics.

Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short formWITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOREvery day, women around the world are confronted with a dilemma - how to look. In a society embroiled in a cult of female beauty and youthfulness, pressure on women to conform physically is constant and all- pervading.

In the struggle for women's equality, there is one subject still shrouded in silence - women's compulsive pursuit of beauty. The myth of female beauty challenges every woman, every day of her life. Naomi Wolf exposes the tyranny of the beauty myth through the ages and its oppressive function today, in the home and at work, in literature and the media, in relationships between men and women, between women and women. With pertinent and intelligent examples, she confronts the beauty industry and its advertising and uncovers the reasons why women are consumed by this destructive obsession.

In this provocative and highly personal book, bestselling author Naomi Wolf explores a subject that has long been taboo in our society: women's sexual coming-of-age. Promiscuities brazenly exposes the truths behind the conflicting messages directed at young women during and after the sexual revolution. Drawing on surprising examples from the ancient and recent past, along with vivid recollections of her own youth, Wolf shows how our "liberated" culture still fears and distorts female passion. She also shares fascinating true stories that illustrate the fantasies and sometimes crippling realities women pass through on their way toward erotic and emotional discovery. A landmark book, Promiscuities is a call to women of all ages to reclaim and celebrate their sexuality. From the Trade Paperback edition.

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.

Feminist thinker Naomi Wolf, presents her most personal book yet - a stirring portrait of her father and his unconventional wisdom on how to live, love, and see the world. Originally published: New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005; London: Virago, 2006.

"In "The Beauty Myth", Naomi Wolf sought to change the way in which women see themselves in relation to their bodies. Now she focuses on how they see themselves in relation to power. She argues that the feminist movement has to change if it is to speak to a new generation of women, and that, even as women are gaining more ground than ever before, a wariness of feminist orthodoxies keeps them away from the only movement capable of putting political clout behind their personal success. The book represents a call to women to throw off centuries of conditioning about the relationship between power and femininity."--Www.amazon.co.uk (Feb. 1, 2011.).

A NOTE FROM MARGO BALDWIN, President and Publisher, Chelsea Green Publishing “Naomi Wolf’s Outrages is a vitally important book to publish right now, not just because of its literary scholarship, which is superb, but because it speaks so clearly to the present societal moment. It’s a moment that is incredibly dangerous, a potential turning point when marginalized people and groups are targeted, silenced and often jailed. It’s a time when information counter to the official narrative is censored and erased from the public sphere, when books and articles and even scientific research are banned and labeled as “fake news” or “dangerous misinformation.” Outrages shows what happens when a society, in this case Victorian England, becomes obsessed with contagion and impurity and criminalizes “immoral” acts and “dangerous” ideas. . . . Read it and weep, not just for those who suffered in a distant Victorian time but for those who suffer still from the draconian laws that era produced and which are still in effect all over the world today.”

Kritische analyse van de maatschappelijke bejegening van (aanstaande) moeders, met name in de Verenigde Staten.

Спорная, признанная критиками и ставшая бестселлером книга, которая положила начало третьей волне феминизма. В 1990 году Наоми Уолф опубликовала «Миф о красоте» — книгу, которая вывела Уолф на международную арену и сделала её бестселлером. Влияние этой книги на феминистский дискурс ощущается и сегодня и, в некоторых отношениях, становится еще более актуальным.

In Zeiten wachsender Bürgerüberwachung und Sicherheitshysterie ist Naomi Wolfs Buch unerlässlich. Amerikaner und Europäer betrachten ihre freiheitliche Demokratie oft als selbstverständlich und glauben, dass ihr Erhalt nicht aktiv verteidigt werden muss. Doch die Geschichte zeigt, dass nicht die Demokratie, sondern die Tyrannei unsterblich ist und stets Wege findet, zurückzukehren. Wolf zieht historische Vergleiche und fragt, wie Diktatoren wie Hitler, Mussolini und Pinochet ihre Herrschaft etablierten. Oft geschah dies nicht abrupt, sondern schleichend, innerhalb der Strukturen von Demokratien, die der Selbstzerstörung erlagen. Faschismus zeigt sich in seiner Anfangsphase selten durch Gewalt, sondern oft darin, dass wir beginnen, unsere Worte abzuwägen. Das erschreckende Porträt der gegenwärtigen präfaschistischen Phase in den USA ist alarmierend realistisch. Das Buch bietet zudem Anhaltspunkte, um aktuelle politische Entwicklungen in Europa besser zu verstehen. Wolfs fundiertes Wissen als Tochter von Holocaust-Überlebenden macht das Werk besonders aufschlussreich für deutsche Leser. Sie ist auch die Autorin des Kultbuchs „Mythos Schönheit“.

Die überzeugte Feministin Naomi Wolf will - so paradox dies auch klingen mag - den Feminismus überflüssig machen. Wenn die Frauen sich auf ihre eigentliche Kraft und ihre Energien besinnen, wenn sie endlich den Mut und die Lust haben, sich ihren Teil der gesellschaftlichen Macht zu holen, wenn sie sich dabei weder von Männern noch von radikalen Feministinnen, noch von ihrem eigenen Harmoniebedürfnis einschüchtern lassen, dann sind wir alle endlich da, wo wir hinmüssen - auf dem Weg zur echten Gleichberechtigung, zur wahren Demokratie.

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