My Secret Garden
1973 book compiled by Nancy Friday / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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My Secret Garden: Women’s Sexual Fantasies is a 1973 book compiled by Nancy Friday, who collected women's fantasies through letters and tapes and personal interviews.[1] After including a female sexual fantasy in a novel she submitted for publishing, her editor objected, and Friday shelved the novel. After other women began writing and talking about sex publicly, Friday began thinking about writing a book about female sexual fantasies, first collecting fantasies from her friends, and then advertising in newspapers and magazines for more.[2] She organized these narratives into "rooms", and each is identified by the woman's first name, except for the last chapter, "odd notes", which is presented as the "fleeting thoughts" of many anonymous women. The book revealed that women fantasize, just as men do, and that the content of the fantasies can be as transgressive, or not, as men's. The book, the first published compilation of women's sexual fantasies,[3] challenged many previously accepted notions of female sexuality.
Author | Nancy Friday |
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Language | English |
Subject | Female sexual fantasies |
Genre | Non-fiction |
Publisher | Trident Press |
Publication date | 1973 |
Publication place | United States |
Pages | 361 |
ISBN | 0-671-27101-6 |
Followed by | Forbidden Flowers |
My Secret Garden was banned in the Irish Republic.[4]
A sequel, Forbidden Flowers: More Women’s Sexual Fantasies, followed in 1975.