Nancy Friday

Vorwort1973 fiel mir ein Buch in die Hand, das das orgasmische Potential von Frauen zu dem Grad an Sicherheit in Beziehung setzte, die sie einst bei ihrem Vater gefunden hatten. Ich kann mich noch genau an den Tag erinnern, an dem ich mit dem Buch in Händen dasaß und meine spontane Reaktion...

AUTHOR'S ACKNOWLEDGMENTSIn 1973, I picked up a book that correlated women's orgasmic potential with the degree of security they once had with their fathers. I can remember the day, where I was sitting, the weight of the volume in my hands, and my instantaneous reaction: what about mother?I had just...

1The GazeMy Mother's EyesI am a woman who needs to be seen. I need it in a basic way, as in to breathe, to eat. Or not to be seen, that is the other increasingly attractive option, to give up the hfelong preoccupation of finding myself in others' eyes, the need to be taken in so that my existence...