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Author Gets Unpleasant Surprise During Radio Interview

BBC interviewer points out errors in Naomi Wolf's book on homosexuality

(Newser) - Author Naomi Wolf went on BBC radio to plug her new book, which details harsh punishments homosexuals faced in 19th-century England. The problem? Interviewer Matthew Sweet pointed out two fundamental errors in Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalization of Love, per Boing Boing . For instance, Wolf talked about how she...

Banks Helped FBI to Crush Occupy: New Doc Trove

Naomi Wolf: Cops, banks merged into a 'monstrous whole'

(Newser) - Those violent clampdowns on Occupy protesters weren't just planned by US authorities—they were carefully coordinated with the big banks themselves, writes Naomi Wolf at the Guardian . At times the FBI, police, and the Department of Homeland Security even merged with banks into a "monstrous whole" called The...

Naomi Wolf Whiffs Badly With New Vagina Book
Naomi Wolf Whiffs Badly
With New Vagina Book
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Naomi Wolf Whiffs Badly With New Vagina Book

Her 'Vagina' tome makes it an even stranger time to be female: Meghan Daum

(Newser) - With women's issues and rape definitions in the national conversation, this would be the perfect time for a prominent feminist voice to come forward, writes Meghan Daum in the Los Angeles Times . Too bad Naomi Wolf chose to write Vagina: A New Biography instead. Let's see, she wrote...

Naomi Wolf: I Was Busted in Gown for Using Sidewalk

Arrest highlights 'closing of America,' writes Wolf

(Newser) - Stunned feminist author Naomi Wolf says she was busted in an evening gown for "standing lawfully on a sidewalk" outside an event she was invited to. Cops cuffed the writer after she explained to Occupy Wall Street protesters they had a legal right to use the sidewalk outside an...

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