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Wednesday Martin

Wednesday Martin, Ph.D. is the author of Stepmonster and the #1 New York Times bestseller Primates of Park Avenue. She has written for The Atlantic, New York Times, Daily Telegraph, and Psychology Today. Follow her on twitter @WednesdayMartin

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America Still Has a Problem With Women Who Write About Sex

Instead of being respected for her brilliant career, when Nancy Friday died this November, her obituaries reminded me of the perils of being female and ‘too much.’

Wednesday Martin

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Jackie Collins’s Sexual Revolution

She was often dismissed as a purveyor of salacious titillation, but Jackie Collins’s novels—beginning with her first—radically evoked female desire and power.

Wednesday Martin

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