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My Secret Garden
Nancy Friday · 1973 · 336 pages
The #1 New York Times–bestselling author's "groundbreaking" work on women's sexual fantasies ( Publishers Weekly). First published in 1973, My Secret Garden ignited a firestorm of reactions across the nation—from outrage to enthusiastic support. Collected from detailed personal interviews with hundreds of women from diverse backgrounds, this book presents a bracingly honest account of women's inner sexual fantasy lives. In its time, this book shattered taboos and opened up a conversation about the landscape of feminine desire in a way that was unprecedented. Today, My Secret Garden remains one of the most iconic works of feminist literature of our time—and is still relevant to millions of women throughout the world. "The author whose books about gender politics helped redefine American women's sexuality." — The New York Times
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Gillian Anderson
“It’s quite shocking. But not necessarily in the way that you’d expect. The level of intimacy and honesty from the women who were interviewed is just completely extraordinary. Women are sharing their deepest fantasies in an unfiltered, raw way. That, you know, it’s almost as if they’re, they’re not masking themselves for a reader at all.”↗