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Three Women

True stories about the sex lives of three women

True stories about the sex lives of three women

Three Women

Lisa Taddeo

Three Women

All Lina wanted was to be desired. How did she end up in a marriage with two children and a husband who wouldn't touch her? All Maggie wanted was to be understood. How did she end up in a relationship with her teacher and then in court, a hated pariah in her small town? All Sloane wanted was to be admired. How did she end up a sexual object of men, including her husband, who liked to watch her have sex with other men and women? Three Women is a record of unmet needs, unspoken thoughts, disappointments, hopes and unrelenting obsessions.

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A riveting true story about the sex lives of three real American women, based on nearly a decade of reporting.

About the author

Lisa Taddeo spent eight years and thousands of hours tracking the women whose stories comprise Three Women, moving to the towns they lived in to better understand their lives. She has contributed to New York magazine, Esquire, Elle, Glamour and many other publications. Her short stories have won two Pushcart Prizes. She lives with her husband and daughter in Connecticut.

Why we like it

The result of this extensive research and the testimonies of its subjects is Three Women, an intense and brutally honest portrait of female sexual desire, pain, disappointment, longing, and despair, which documents the lasting impact of childhood trauma, and the structures of patriarchy (yes, it’s still a thing) which provide the architecture for the small and large losses endured by women everywhere every single day. This book is for women to know themselves, but for men to know and understand the pain and embodied experience of being female. It’s testament to what the feminists of the 1970s wanted us to know too: that the personal is political; that the experiences of the individual contribute to collective oppression; that acknowledging women’s sexuality and desire is central to true emancipation.

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