Editing Nancy Friday (section)

==Biography==
Nancy Friday was born in [[Pittsburgh]], Pennsylvania, the daughter of Walter F. Friday and Jane Colbert Friday (later Scott).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://fultonhistory.com/newspaper%208/Niagara%20Falls%20NY%20Gazette/Niagara%20Falls%20NY%20Gazette%201948%20may-Jun%20Grayscale/Niagara%20Falls%20NY%20Gazette%201948%20may-Jun%20Grayscale%20-%200099.pdf|title=Jane Colbert Friday to Wed Naval Officer|date=21 May 1948|website=fultonhistory.com|access-date=1 September 2023}}</ref> She grew up in [[Charleston, South Carolina]], and attended the only local girls' college-preparatory school, [[Ashley Hall (school)|Ashley Hall]], where she graduated in 1951.<ref>{{cite news | last = Thompson | first = Bill | title = Alumna Humphreys to read from work | work = [[The Post and Courier]] | location = Charleston, South Carolina | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110807080201/http://www.ashleyhall.org/common/news_detail.asp?newsid=510499&L1=3&L2=1 | archive-date = August 7, 2011 | url = http://www.ashleyhall.org/common/news_detail.asp?newsid=510499&L1=3&L2=1 | date = February 8, 2009 }}</ref> She then attended [[Wellesley College]] in [[Massachusetts]], where she graduated in 1955.<ref>{{cite news | last = Rowes | first = Barbara | title = Author Nancy Friday explains why men's sexual fantasies are different from women's | url = http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20076858,00.html | work = [[People (magazine)|People]] | publisher = [[Time Inc.]] | date = June 30, 1980 }}</ref> She worked briefly as a reporter for the ''[[San Juan Island Times]]'' and subsequently established herself as a magazine journalist in New York City, England, and France before turning to writing full-time.

Her first book, published in 1973, was ''[[My Secret Garden]]'', a compilation of her interviews with women discussing their sexuality and fantasies, which became a bestseller. Friday regularly returned to the interview format in her subsequent books on themes ranging from mothers and daughters to [[sexual fantasies]], [[loving relationship|relationships]], [[jealousy]], [[envy]], [[feminism]], [[BDSM]], and beauty. After the publication of ''The Power of Beauty'' (released in 1996, and re-released under the tile of ''Our Looks/Our Lives'' in 1999),<ref>{{cite book | isbn=0061097942 | title=Our Looks/Our Lives: Sex, Beauty, Power, and the Need to be Seen | last1=Friday | first1=Nancy | date=May 5, 1999 | publisher=HarperCollins }}</ref> she wrote little, contributing an interview of porn star [[Nina Hartley]] to ''XXX: 30 Porn Star Portraits'', a book published in 2004 by photographer [[Timothy Greenfield-Sanders]], with her final book being ''Beyond My Control: Forbidden Fantasies in an Uncensored Age'', published in 2009.

Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s she was a frequent guest on television and radio programs such as ''[[Politically Incorrect]]'', ''[[The Oprah Winfrey Show|Oprah]]'', ''[[Larry King Live]]'', ''[[Good Morning America]]'', and [[NPR]]'s ''[[Talk of the Nation]]''. She also created a website in the mid-1990s, to complement the publication of ''The Power of Beauty.'' Initially conceived as a forum for the development of new work and interaction with her diverse audience, it was not updated in later years.

Despite the judgment of [[Ms. magazine|''Ms.'' magazine]] ("This woman is not a [[feminist]]"),<ref>{{citation | last = Friday | first = Nancy | contribution = Introduction | editor-last = Friday | editor-first = Nancy | title = My secret garden: women's sexual fantasies | page = xvi | publisher = Pocket Books | location = New York | year = 2008 | isbn = 9781416567011 | postscript = .}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=8vf0sCEdnssC&pg=PR16 Details.]
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::When I sat down to write this book, I thought the feminists would embrace it. I didn't realize that it was unwelcome at Feminist Headquarters until a former friend turned editor at ''Ms.'' magazine, gave me a rap on the knuckles, proclaiming that "''Ms.'' will decide what women's fantasies are." Soon after, a review in that magazine followed with the opening line "...this woman is not a feminist."</ref> she predicated her career on the belief that [[feminism]] and the appreciation of men are not mutually exclusive concepts.{{Citation needed|date=December 2019}}