Nancy Friday shows that the key to a woman's character lies in her relationship with her mother - that first binding relationship which becomes the model for so much of a woman's adult relationships with men, and whose fetters constrain her sexuality, independence, and very selfhood.[...]

Nancy Friday's second collection of sexual fantasies is even more explicit and outspoken than her erotic masterpiece, "My Secret Garden". The constant refrain from the thousands of women across America who read "My Secret Garden" was, "Thank God I'm not the only one..." who had those wild, exciting,[...]

Nancy Friday was one the sexual revolution's most controversial figures, captivating the world with her 1973 mega-bestseller, "My Secret Garden". In "Beyond My Control", Friday illustrates how and why the face of sexual fantasy has become more imaginative than ever before. She collects the sexual fa[...]

Today, women everywhere clamor for the latest erotic bestselling novels--their scenes of daring sexual exploits have fired up our collective imagination. But before we turned to fiction for our turn-ons, Nancy Friday unleashed a sexual revolution with her collections of uninhibited writings--the "re[...]

The author's previous books, "My Secret Garden" and "Forbidden Flowers", revealed that women possess erotic imaginations at least as inventive and powerful as those of men. This book asks questions, such as: what are women's sexual fantasies? How have they responded to the changes brought about by f[...]