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Fear and Desire, featuring Erica Jong

Memoir Nation

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Women in the Seventies - The Cultural Revolution of the Sixties

In the early seventies, women had a lot of shackles to shed. Fear of flying was so named because erica's protagonist isidora, whose full name is isidora zelda white stoleman wing it is afraid of flying and the novel opens on a plane. desire is such a huge topic and theme, and it runs through all kinds of writing. And generally, i think it's not an easy topic to brooch in fiction or in memoirs. But if you can say anything about how it's changed over these decades, what do you have to say?

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