About NANCY FRIDAY

Nancy Colbert Friday, born in Pittsburgh, PA, has written on the topics of female sexuality and liberation for more than 40 years.

Nancy Friday's successful fantasy revelations (My Secret Garden, Forbidden Flowers) place her among feminist erotic pioneers. Her writings argue that women are often reared under an ideal of womanhood that is outdated and restrictive, and unrepresentative of many women's true inner lives, and that openness about women's hidden lives could help free women to truly feel able to enjoy being themselves. She asserts that this is not due to deliberate malice, but due to social expectation, and that for women's and men's benefit alike it is healthier that both be able to be equally open, participatory and free to be accepted for who and what they are.