This article is about the book. For the song by Depeche Mode, see A Broken Frame.
My Secret Garden: Women’s Sexual Fantasies
Cover
Author
Nancy Friday
Country
United States
Language
English
Subject
Female sexual fantasies
Genre
Non-fiction
Publisher
Trident Press
Publication date
1973
Pages
361
ISBN
0-671-27101-6
Followed by
Forbidden Flowers
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.
My Secret Garden was banned in the Irish Republic.[4]
A sequel, Forbidden Flowers: More Women’s Sexual Fantasies, followed in 1975.
^Sumrell, Robert; Varnelis, Kazys (2010). "Green Screens: Modernism's Secret Garden". In Tilder, Lisa; Blostein, Beth (eds.). Design Ecologies: Essays on the Nature of Design. Princeton Architectural Press. p. 88. ISBN 978-1-56898-783-5.
^Friday, Nancy (2001). My Secret Garden: Women's Sexual Fantasies. Quartet Books. pp. 7–17. ISBN 978-0-7043-3294-2.
^Foerstel, Herbert N. (2002). Banned in the U.S.A.: A Reference Guide to Book Censorship in Schools and Public Libraries. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 248. ISBN 978-0-313-31166-6.
^"Banned Publications", The Irish Times, Friday 19 November 1976 (pg. 4)
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