Nancy Friday

Nancy Friday
BornNancy Colbert Friday
(1933-08-27)August 27, 1933
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
DiedNovember 5, 2017(2017-11-05) (aged 84)
New York City, U.S.
Alma materWellesley College
SubjectsFemale sexuality and liberation
Spouse
  • Bill Manville
    (m. 1967; div. 1986)
  • (m. 1988; div. 2005)

Nancy Colbert Friday (August 27, 1933 – November 5, 2017) was an American author who wrote on the topics of female sexuality and liberation.[1] Her writings argue that women have often been reared under an ideal of womanhood, which was outdated and restrictive, and largely unrepresentative of many women's true inner lives, and that openness about women's hidden lives could help free women to truly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.

  1. ^ Gates, Anita (November 5, 2017). "Nancy Friday, 84, Author On Women's Sexuality, But Not a Feminist, Dies". The New York Times. p. D7. Retrieved November 5, 2017.