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In 1984, she received a Bachelor’s degree in English literature at Yale University. She then became a Rhodes Scholar at New College, Oxford.
Her 2012 book Vagina – A New Biography was highly controversial, with feminist critics even questioning its intent.
Naomi R. Wolf (born November 12, 1962) is an American liberal progressive feminist author, journalist, and former political advisor to Al Gore and Bill Clinton.
Via Wolf’s first book The Beauty Myth (1991), she became a leading spokeswoman of what has been described as the third wave of the feminist movement. Such leading feminists as Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan praised the work; others, including Camille Paglia and Christina Hoff Sommers, criticized it. Her later books include the bestseller The End of America in 2007 and Vagina: A New Biography. Critics have challenged the quality and veracity of the scholarship in her books, including Outrages (2019). In this case, her serious misreading of court records led to its publication in the U.S. being cancelled.
In Fire with Fire (1993), Wolf writes on politics, female empowerment and women’s sexual liberation. The New York Times assailed the work for its “dubious oversimplifications and highly debatable assertions” and its “disconcerting penchant for inflationary prose,” nonetheless approving of Wolf’s “efforts to articulate an accessible, pragmatic feminism, … helping to replace strident dogma with common sense.” The Time magazine reviewer Martha Duffy dismissed the book as “flawed,” although she commented that Wolf was “an engaging raconteur” who was also “savvy about the role of TV – especially the Thomas-Hill hearings and daytime talk shows – in radicalizing women, including homemakers.” She characterized the book as advocating an inclusive strain of feminism that welcomed abortion opponents. In the UK, feminist author Natasha Walter writing in The Independent said that the book “has its faults, but compared with The Beauty Myth it has energy and spirit, and generosity too.” Walter, however, criticized it for having a “narrow agenda” where “you will look in vain for much discussion of older women, of black women, of women with low incomes, of mothers.” Characterizing Wolf as a “media star”, Walter wrote: “She is particularly good, naturally, on the role of women in the media.”
