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Wolf, Naomi
Naomi Wolf 1962-
American nonfiction writer and journalist.
The following entry presents an overview of Wolf's career through 2001.
A provocative author and commentator on the subject of women's issues, Wolf emerged as one of the most powerful new voices of American feminism during the early 1990s. Though often at odds with the beliefs and issues that structured the nascent feminist movement of the 1960s and 1970s, Wolf has developed pointed criticisms regarding the culturally dominant notions of beauty, power, sexuality, and motherhood, which she feels continue to prevent women from gaining full equality with men at all levels of society. Wolf offers extended considerations of each of these themes in several best-selling books, including The Beauty Myth (1990), Fire with Fire (1993), Promiscuities (1997), and Misconceptions (2001). While Wolf has received criticism for her use of questionable statistics and broad historical references in support of her arguments, her works consistently raise compelling questions about the role of feminism in the lives of women and society as a whole.
Biographical Information
Born in San Francisco, California, Wolf was raised by educated, liberal Jewish parents. Her father was a professor, her mother an anthropologist, and Wolf grew up in the city's Haight-Ashbury district, the center of the social and sexual revolutions of the 1960s and early 1970s. Her childhood and adolescent experiences within this turbulent milieu informed many of Wolf's perspectives on the shortcomings of second-wave feminism. Wolf attended Yale University and graduated in 1984 with a bachelor's degree in English literature. The recipient of a Rhodes scholarship, Wolf pursued graduate work at New College at Oxford University. Her first book, The Beauty Myth, is based on research she initially conducted for her dissertation at Oxford. Following the popular success of this work, Wolf left Oxford and returned to the United States, continuing to research and write about feminist issues. Since the publication of The Beauty Myth, Wolf has received considerable attention from the mainstream media in the United States and Britain, appearing as a frequent guest on the news and talk show circuit and becoming one of the most visible women in the contemporary feminist movement. In 1993 Wolf married David Shipley, a journalist and speechwriter for former U.S. President Bill Clinton, with whom she has a daughter. During the 2000 presidential election, Wolf served as a campaign advisor to Democratic candidate Al Gore. In addition to her published books, she has also contributed to various periodicals, including the New Republic and the New York Times.
Major Works
Each of Wolf's books explores the limitations and possibilities of modern feminism through a broad focus on different facets of women's experience. The Beauty Myth examines the backlash against the feminist movement and the way in which traditional ideas about beauty are used as a political weapon against women's claims for equality. Tracing ideas of feminine beauty throughout the centuries, Wolf argues that obsessive and unrealistic expectations of beauty serve as a last resort for men to defend themselves against women's demands for greater social and political power. For Wolf, the tremendous influence of the beauty myth in contemporary Western societies can be found in the amount of money women spend for cosmetics and dietary aids, in the hope of attaining the ideal physical appearance that these industries promote. Wolf insists that the cultural force of the beauty myth encourages women to destroy themselves physically—for example, through excessive dieting and plastic surgery—and drains their psychological and emotional energy, thereby slowly eroding the initial gains of feminism. Wolf contends that this obsession with beauty is unhealthy for both men and women, and she encourages women to seek other images of female beauty in places such as women's films, novels, and art. Wolf also suggests that younger women draw upon the work of second-wave feminists to form an intergenerational alliance to advocate for alternative notions of beauty that are more faithful to the needs of feminine desires and the female body. Wolf continued to develop her notion of a new kind of feminism in her second book, Fire with Fire, in which she promotes what she terms "power feminism." Wolf urges women to move away from the type of feminism that views women primarily as victims of male dominance, and to embrace instead a movement that encourages women to take control of their lives and their futures. To create this new movement, Wolf argues that feminism must welcome all women, not just those who adhere to a specific ideology. For this new feminism to be successful, Wolf asserts, women must learn how to acquire economic and political power within the mainstream and to effectively use this power to advocate for women's issues. Rather than cling to a wishful vision of a fundamentally different political arena, Wolf insists that such a movement must be pragmatic and adjust to the realities of politics as it is currently practiced. Only through a focused pursuit of economic and political power, Wolf declares, can feminism achieve its emancipatory goals and renew itself as a vibrant and meaningful social movement. Wolf's work became increasingly personal with the publication of her third book, Promiscuities, in which she offers a revealing account of her own coming of age within the context of sexual liberation. Supplementing her own stories and those of her girlhood friends with historical and anthropological analysis, Wolf argues that the sexual revolution offered little in the way of genuine freedom for women. Although social changes encouraged young women to consider themselves as sexually free as young men, women were given scant guidance on how to responsibly explore and foster their sexuality. Through her own personal experiences, Wolf reveals how girls typically become aware of the often confusing nexus of power and vulnerability that characterizes feminine sexuality. Rather than being able to forge distinctively female modes of sexual desire, Wolf asserts that the sexual revolution continued to leave women in the position of seeking to satisfy male desires before identifying their own. To rectify this, Wolf argues for a new sexual morality that would encourage women to control their sexuality and to find genuine ways of expressing their sexual desires. Wolf insists that girls not only need more information about their bodies and sexuality, but also require a values-based approach to sex education that would offer a more thoughtful structure for the decisions girls make about sex. In her next work, Misconceptions, Wolf examines the mythologies and expectations that structure the understandings of pregnancy and motherhood in America. As in her previous books, Wolf again relies on her own personal experience to develop her feminist critique, focusing on the ways in which she feels society fails to adequately support pregnant women and new parents. Despite feminist advocacy for greater control over the birthing process, Wolf argues that American women continue to be offered condescending advice and misleading information about the often conflicted nature of pregnancy, labor, and new motherhood. Although many women expecting a child may feel inadequate, vulnerable, and even angry, Wolf asserts that many leave these genuine fears and anxieties unspoken for fear of being labeled a bad mother. Along with criticizing the medical establishment for its failure to provide women with a safe and emotionally supportive setting for their pregnancies and labor, Wolf also insists that business and society place great pressure on new parents and do little to address their economic and psychological needs. Wolf argues for a renewed examination of how best to support pregnant women and new parents in more effective and helpful ways.
Critical Reception
All of Wolf's books have received considerable critical attention. Though many reviewers have praised the honesty and passion of Wolf's work and her skill in raising compelling questions regarding the status of women, many critics have been sharply critical of Wolf's use of social statistics, her polemical rhetoric, and the limitations of her sweeping political generalizations. The Beauty Myth has received an extraordinary amount of critical attention in the United States and Britain, with many lauding Wolf's desire to bring the attention of a new generation of women to the old problem of culturally inscribed standards of feminine beauty. However, many commentators have noted that her argument is undermined by her failure to cite sources for her claims about the rates of cosmetic surgery and rape. Other reviewers have criticized Wolf's lack of reflection on her own privileged status—including the ironic fact of her own telegenic physical appearance. Such detractors have also bemoaned her failure to adequately consider how the complexities of race, class, and sexuality may play into the workings of the beauty myth. Critics of The Beauty Myth have frequently charged it with being overly pessimistic or too simplistic by ascribing many of the problems women face to the singular factor of beauty. Fire with Fire has faced similar criticism, though many commentators have welcomed Wolf's call for a renewed feminism that recognizes the importance of economic power and that is open to women of all political stances. Others, however, have dismissed her position as elitist and naïve, arguing that simply encouraging women to acquire more political power will not alone address the structural inequalities of education and wealth that disadvantage large numbers of women. For these critics, the promise of Wolf's "power feminism" has remained inaccessible to the many women who have relatively few economic resources and who have little, if any, power of their own to deploy for political causes. Promiscuities has been perhaps the most harshly reviewed of Wolf's books. While some have lauded Wolf's recommendations for a new approach to sex education and praised her frankness in assessing the failures of the sexual revolution, especially for women, most critics have regarded Wolf's mixture of personal revelation with historical and anthropological material as a less than convincing approach to the complex subject of female sexuality. Other critics have decried the lack of diversity in Wolf's discussion of sexuality, noting the conspicuous absence of lesbian and male voices. Though reviewers have welcomed Wolf's willingness to raise provocative questions about the relationship between feminism and female sexuality, many have regarded her solutions as problematic. Like her previous books, Misconceptions has received criticism for being too personally revealing and seemingly self-indulgent. Some critics have viewed Wolf's personal revelations as offering little insight for women who may be in significantly different or more disadvantaged social, economic, or emotional circumstances than Wolf herself. Despite these concerns, commentators have praised Wolf's honesty and acknowledged that her frank, often frightening look at the experience of pregnancy and motherhood presents a useful counter to the many sanguine advice books currently available for expectant mothers.
Principal Works
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used against Women (nonfiction) 1990
Fire with Fire: The New Female Power and How It Will Change the 21st Century (nonfiction) 1993
Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood (nonfiction) 1997
Misconceptions: Truth, Lies, and the Unexpected on the Journey to Motherhood (nonfiction) 2001
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Justine Picardie (review date 21 September 1990)
SOURCE: Picardie, Justine. "The Suffering Sex." New Statesman & Society (21 September 1990): 39–40.
[In the following review of The Beauty Myth, Picardie commends Wolf's moving personal accounts and insight, but criticizes in her "muddled" argument and use of statistics.]
A great deal of attention has been paid to this book: the Sunday Times has paid a large sum of money to serialise it; the author, a young American woman called Naomi Wolf, recently appeared on both The Late Show and breakfast television. Magazine profiles have been written; glamorous pictures taken of the attractive Ms Wolf. For The Beauty Myth is, according...
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Richard Davenport-Hines (review date 12–18 October 1990)
SOURCE: Davenport-Hines, Richard. "Torments of the Flesh." Times Literary Supplement (12–18 October 1990): 1097.
[In the following review of The Beauty Myth, Davenport-Hines praises the eloquence and force of Wolf's writing, though finds shortcomings in what he perceives as her unconvincing statistical evidence and her failure to account for the personal responsibility of women.]
Naomi Wolf grew up in California. Her mother Deborah kept a notepad in the kitchen where the rest of her family could surreptitiously peep at it. On the notepad Deborah recorded the agonies of her diet, and the guilt that engulfed her when she broke it with food binges. Deborah...
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Wendy Wasserstein (review date 12 May 1991)
SOURCE: Wasserstein, Wendy. "Through the Good-Looking Glass." Los Angeles Times Book Review (12 May 1991): 4.
[In the following review of The Beauty Myth, Wasserstein concludes that Wolf offers interesting and unsettling generalizations, but that her book is "not earth-shaking."]
I remember reading The Feminine Mystique my senior year on the steps of my dormitory at Mt. Holyoke College. I had a yellow highlighter pen and every other sentence I would madly underline because not only did Betty Friedan seem to have put her finger on a previously unnamed plight, but she was, by doing so, opening up doors and possibilities for me and my classmates....
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Marilyn Yalom (review date 16 June 1991)
SOURCE: Yalom, Marilyn. "Feminism's Latest Makeover." Washington Post Book World (16 June 1991): 7.
[In the following excerpt, Yalom offers a positive assessment of The Beauty Myth.]
Periodically throughout our century the debate on women's position in society swells to daunting proportions. For the past two decades, it has pervaded the media in countless books, articles, films, plays and television shows, with no signs of abating. American women's gains in the workplace and homeplace are weighed against their losses. White middle-class women are contrasted to their working-class and minority counterparts. Feminist aspirations are evaluated in the context of...
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Clara Germani (essay date 18 June 1991)
SOURCE: Germani, Clara. "The Truth about the Beauty Myth." Christian Science Monitor (18 June 1991): 14.
[In the following essay, Germani discusses The Beauty Myth and reports Wolf's comments on her feminist views.]
When a radio talk-show host here felt it necessary to note that Naomi Wolf is a beautiful woman, the author of The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used against Women turned the tables by describing him for the audience as tall, dark, and cute.
While the host's comment didn't immediately seem out of line, it did as soon as Ms. Wolf demonstrated the double standard implied by how out of place it seemed in that same...
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Mary G. Gotschall (review date 8 July 1991)
SOURCE: Gotschall, Mary G. "Poisoned Apple." National Review (8 July 1991): 42–44.
[In the following review, Gotschall offers an unfavorable assessment of The Beauty Myth.]
In The Beauty Myth, a provocative new feminist tract which should take its place alongside such polemics as Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, Naomi Wolf argues that American women are enslaved by the cultural edict to be beautiful. They are victims of an impossible standard. The pressure, according to Miss Wolf, has become relentless during the past decade, as women have begun competing head-on with men in the professional sphere.
For Naomi Wolf, the beauty...
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Maurice Cranston (review date August 1991)
SOURCE: Cranston, Maurice. Review of The Beauty Myth, by Naomi Wolf. American Spectator 24, no. 8 (August 1991): 36–37.
[In the following review, Cranston offers a negative assessment of The Beauty Myth.]
The Beauty Myth has already caused something of a stir in England and, being English, I think I can understand why. The argument is outrageous, and it is written in a wild and witty way by a glamorous American graduate student, aged 28, who is at Oxford on a "Rhodes scholarship"—that is, with a fellowship endowed by the racist imperialist Cecil Rhodes, although her own views are those of the most radical-feminist left. Like Cecil Rhodes, however,...
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Elayne Rapping (review date October 1991)
SOURCE: Rapping, Elayne. "Bad News, Good News." Women's Review of Books 9, no. 1 (October 1991): 1, 3–4.
[In the following excerpt, Rapping offers an unfavorable assessment of The Beauty Myth.]
Is it the best of times or the worst of times? Have we come a long way, baby, or are we systematically being beaten back to ground zero by the right-wing goon squads? On any given day, depending on the headlines or my phone messages, I'm likely to believe either one. The times are certainly a-changing, but who's on first? The horrors of the Reagan-Bush era—increased feminization of poverty, terrifying threats to reproductive rights, reported increases in sexual...
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Diane Johnson (review date 16 January 1992)
SOURCE: Johnson, Diane. "Something for the Boys." New York Review of Books (16 January 1992): 13–17.
[In the following excerpt, Johnson discusses the significance of The Beauty Myth and renewed interest in feminism, gender roles, and masculinity, as reflected by a number of new books published in the early 1990s.]
Dorothy Parker is said to have remarked to the authors of Modern Woman, the Lost Sex, "I bet you say that to all the sexes." Reading these books together is like being locked in the coat closet at a cocktail party to overhear a muffled cacophony of half-truths, partial insights, and entrenched...
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Gayle Greene (review date 10 February 1992)
SOURCE: Greene, Gayle. "The Empire Strikes Back." Nation (10 February 1992): 166–70.
[In the following excerpt, Greene offers a favorable assessment of The Beauty Myth.]
Those who are living through change may be the last to know it, until something we read brings things together in a way that makes us see that yes, things really are different—it's not just us growing older. These books [Naomi Wolf's The Beauty Myth and Susan Faludi's Backlash]—both written by young women, both bristling with indignation—demonstrate that something has changed profoundly in the culture's attitudes toward and representations of women, that we are undergoing a...
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Maxine S. Theodoulou (review date summer 1992)
SOURCE: Theodoulou, Maxine S. Review of The Beauty Myth, by Naomi Wolf. ETC: A Review of General Semantics 49, no. 2 (summer 1992): 251–52.
[In the following review, Theodoulou concludes that The Beauty Myth is undermined by Wolf's narrow thesis and "pedestrian style," but that the work offers useful insight.]
Women's preoccupation with beauty [in The Beauty Myth] fuels a billion-dollar industry. The "standards" of beauty constantly change, leaving women with closets of outdated clothes and, in the worst case, outdated bodies. To meet the current standards of feminine beauty women diet, exercise, and undertake dangerous and costly...
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Melissa Benn (review date 26 November 1993)
SOURCE: Benn, Melissa. "The Big Girls." New Statesman & Society (26 November 1993): 39.
[In the following review, Benn argues that Fire with Fire oversimplifies women's liberation and the complexities of social reality.]
Absurdly over-hyped, Fire with Fire is the latest in a long line of high-energy, sweeping tomes by American feminists that everyone tells us overshadow our sour, small-minded, home-grown variety. But massive publicity of both book and author will ensure that they get out to millions of women looking hungrily (or lazily) for the text of their age. For that reason alone, it is important.
It is certainly the first...
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Anne Applebaum (review date 27 November 1993)
SOURCE: Applebaum, Anne. "Laughing All the Way to the Bonk." Spectator (27 November 1993): 40–41.
[In the following review, Applebaum offers a negative assessment of Fire with Fire.]
Fire with Fire is an odd work. Neither fiction, nor journalism, nor criticism, nor autobiography, it nevertheless retains elements of all four: there are eye-catching, source-free statistics ('most women have been sexually harassed at work'), up-to-date anecdotes (Anita Hill, Hillary Clinton, and the women of Sarajevo all make appearances), and odd bits and pieces of popular culture (the films Basic Instinct and Fatal Attraction get a mention, and...
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Katherine Boo (review date 28 November 1993)
SOURCE: Boo, Katherine. "Taking Off the Velvet Gloves." Washington Post Book World (28 November 1993): 1, 10.
[In the following review of Fire with Fire, Boo finds Wolf's inclusive "power feminism" interesting, but concludes that her recommendations for change are inadequate, particularly as she fails to account for the economically disadvantaged.]
Lordy, what a mess this manifesto [Fire with Fire] is. Proving that even feminists have the right to change their minds, it argues against much of what undergirded Wolf's bestselling Beauty Myth two years ago. It's so full of subtextual exclamation points it reads like an over-caffeinated Katie...
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Maggie Gallagher (review date 29 November 1993)
SOURCE: Gallagher, Maggie. "Party Girl." National Review (29 November 1993): 66–67.
[In the following review, Gallagher offers an unfavorable assessment of Fire with Fire.]
Feminism has come to a peculiar pass: Feminist ideas are everywhere; feminists, however, are hard to find. How did this happen?
That is the question Naomi Wolf—whose first book, The Beauty Myth, was a national best-seller—takes up in Fire with Fire, a feminist's critique of feminism. This is what she has come up with: Why did feminism fail? Because it isn't any fun. Holding her first large royalty check in hand, Miss Wolf has had an epiphany: Money is good!...
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Mary Nemeth (essay date 6 December 1993)
SOURCE: Nemeth, Mary. "Who's Afraid of Naomi Wolf?" Maclean's (6 December 1993): 70–71.
[In the following essay, Nemeth discusses Wolf's career, critical reception, and feminist perspective in Fire with Fire.]
Having determined that the restaurant does not offer free-range poultry, free-range meat or free-range anything, Naomi Wolf begins searching for a meatless item on the menu. The 31-year-old American feminist author is in a fancy French eatery in uptown Toronto, talking up her new book and running on adrenaline. Wolf finally settles on a croque monsieur sandwich—but insists that it be prepared without ham. Very gastronomically correct. Then, as an...
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Robert Scheer (review date 19 December 1993)
SOURCE: Scheer, Robert. "Revolution Betrayed." Los Angeles Times Book Review (19 December 1993): 1, 8.
[In the following excerpt, Scheer offers an unfavorable assessment of Fire with Fire, describing it as "a breathless, noisy and contradictory tract that substitutes overblown rhetoric for analysis."]
Are women a class with broad common interests? Does a welfare mother in Watts share a common oppression with a female executive in Beverly Hills that can be addressed by the women's movement? The unexamined assumption of both of these books [Naomi Wolf's Fire with Fire and Barbara Boxer's Strangers in the Senate] is that they do....
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Kio Stark (review date 31 January 1994)
SOURCE: Stark, Kio. "I'm O.K., You're O.K." Nation (31 January 1994): 137–40.
[In the following excerpt, Stark criticizes what she views as Wolf's lack of concern for socioeconomic disparity and argues that Fire with Fire reflects Wolf's implicit interest in preserving existing power structures.]
Naomi Wolf's Fire with Fire takes its title from the proverb, which is juxtaposed on the opening page with a quote from Audre Lorde: "The Master's tools will never dismantle the Master's house." Wolf's polemic begins with Anita Hill's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, which, she says, marks a major turning point in women's history, one...
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Lesley Hazleton (review date February 1994)
SOURCE: Hazleton, Lesley. "Power Politics." Women's Review of Books 11, no. 5 (February 1994): 1, 3–4.
[In the following review, Hazleton offers a favorable assessment of Fire with Fire.]
Naomi Wolf's brand of feminism is full of energy. It includes laughter, and mischief, and a brash, cleansing honesty. It flexes its muscles and gets women out into the world, not asking but demanding, not self-pitying but doing.
A much better and far more important book than Wolf's best-selling The Beauty Myth, Fire with Fire incorporates two clarion calls. The first is for feminism to re-contact its power base: women. All women. Not just those...
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Clare Collins (review date 25 February 1994)
SOURCE: Collins, Clare. "Genderquakes and Aftershocks." Commonweal (25 February 1994): 22–23.
[In the following review of Fire with Fire, Collins approves of Wolf's inclusive feminist perspective, but finds shortcomings in the book's generalizations, repetitions, and underlying indifference toward the underclass.]
I was apprehensive about reviewing Naomi Wolf's new feminist treatise. After all, Ms. Wolf not only went to Yale but she became a Rhodes scholar. Besides, I'm not at all versed in feminist literature and have shied away from describing myself as a feminist because I am not adamantly prochoice. The unquestioning acceptance of abortion rights as...
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Karen Lehrman (review date 14 March 1994)
SOURCE: Lehrman, Karen. "Women's Hour." New Republic (14 March 1994): 40–45.
[In the following review of Fire with Fire, Lehrman finds flaws in Wolf's contradictory feminist positions and trivial self-help pragmatism.]
Underlying nearly all the commentary on relations between the sexes these days is the notion that we have entered a period of unprecedented contradiction and confusion. A president devoted to equal rights for women now resides in the White House, along side a First Lady who seems to personify those rights; twenty-eight new female members of Congress have helped press legislation concerning women's health and family issues that had been...
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Ann Menasche (review date May 1994)
SOURCE: Menasche, Ann. "When Feminism Joins the Establishment." Off Our Backs 24, no. 5 (May 1994): 9.
[In the following review, Menasche offers an unfavorable assessment of Fire with Fire.]
NEWS FLASH: The backlash against women is over. A "genderquake" represented by the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas hearings and the 1992 elections of Clinton and an increased number of female politicians, has brought us to the brink of the end of patriarchy. Now, all we need to do to make things "increasingly all right" is to "change our self images," stop "bashing" men, and get over our "fear" of power and money.
If this sounds a bit far...
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Jeremy Waldron (review date 3 June 1994)
SOURCE: Waldron, Jeremy. "Take These Chains." Times Literary Supplement (3 June 1994): 4.
[In the following review of Fire with Fire, Waldron approves of Wolf's candor and accessibility, but finds faults in the book's simplistic dichotomies and unconvincing anecdotal evidence.]
Naomi Wolf's first book, The Beauty Myth, was a remarkable piece of work: a bitter and compelling argument about the way in which the freedom that women are winning is poisoned by the culture of idealized physical beauty. Wolf's account of the social and psychological consequences of this insinuation was packed with insight. She traced the terror of ageing, the pathology of...
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Karina Rollins (review date summer 1994)
SOURCE: Rollins, Karina. "Power Play." Public Interest, no. 116 (summer 1994): 124–27.
[In the following review of Fire with Fire, Rollins finds shortcomings in Wolf's preoccupation with an outmoded notion of patriarchal oppression and a tendency to resort to unsubstantiated generalizations and truisms.]
Women's fight for equality did not end when women won the vote seventy-three years ago. Equal in theory but often not in practice, many women turned to feminism to help them fight the remainders of inequality. While these remainders were real, the feminist movement of the 1960s and beyond frequently degenerated into extremism and radical excess....
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Helen M. Sterk (review date 13–20 July 1994)
SOURCE: Sterk, Helen M. Review of Fire with Fire, by Naomi Wolf. Christian Century (13–20 July 1994): 694–95.
[In the following review, Sterk offers an unfavorable assessment of Fire with Fire.]
We have met the enemy, and she is us. This is Naomi Wolf's message to women, especially feminists. Wolf tells women that they are "suffering from too much subordination for no more pressing reason than that we have stopped short of compelling it to end." Ignoring the history of gender relations in the West, Wolf says all will be well if women just accept and use the power they already hold. Marked by good intentions and marred by poor execution, Fire with...
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Eve Pollard (review date 9 May 1997)
SOURCE: Pollard, Eve. "The Virgin Myth." New Statesman (9 May 1997): 45.
[In the following review, Pollard offers a mixed assessment of Promiscuities, finding fault in Wolf's focus on the loss of virginity as the defining point of a woman's maturation.]
Just before the feminist movement seriously got under way, a rash of Hollywood films explored the sleep-over teenage sisterhood of America. Dazzlingly acne-free, Sandra Dee, Connie Francis and the rest would stay overnight at one another's houses, or in each other's hotel rooms and spend innocent hours wondering where the boys were. As lightweight as an asexual version of the TV series Friends, these...
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Mary Kenny (review date 10 May 1997)
SOURCE: Kenny, Mary. "Created, Not Begotten." Spectator (10 May 1997): 36.
[In the following review of Promiscuities, Kenny commends Wolf's personal observations and provocative questions, but concludes that her assertions are undermined by a dogmatic view of gender as a social construct.]
The trouble really began when Simone de Beauvoir announced, 'One is not born a woman, one becomes one.' From this single sentence comes most of the discourse, over the past 40 years, on the feminine condition. If one becomes a woman, how does that process occur?
In the 1960s, some very clever feminist writers dissected this process of becoming...
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Barry Gewen (review date 19 May 1997)
SOURCE: Gewen, Barry. "The Seat of Women's Delight." New Leader (19 May 1997): 19–22.
[In the following excerpt, Gewen offers an unfavorable assessment of Promiscuities.]
Not long ago I read an article on South Africa that was so smug and sanctimonious, so pleased to bask in the warmth of its own progressivism, that it made me want to come out in favor of apartheid. I had a similar reaction while reading Naomi Wolf's latest book, Promiscuities. In its effort to celebrate female sexuality—or, as Wolf puts it, "to redeem the slut in me"—it is so self-important and inflated, so sentimental to the point of ickiness, that I found myself thinking purdah...
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Scott Shuger (review date June 1997)
SOURCE: Shuger, Scott. Review of Promiscuities, by Naomi Wolf. Washington Monthly 29, no. 6 (June 1997): 49–51.
[In the following review, Shuger offers a generally positive assessment of Promiscuities, though notes shortcomings in Wolf's evasion of personal accountability and failure to recognize the importance of responsible parenting.]
An aspect of political correctness that is particularly troubling from a public policy perspective is its hostility to distinctions among and within different social groups, distinctions often crucial for formulating and implementing solutions. Thus, even if Group A has a pronounced and disproportional tendency towards...
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Ellen Wilson Fielding (review date 2 June 1997)
SOURCE: Fielding, Ellen Wilson. "All-American Girl?" National Review (2 June 1997): 54–56.
[In the following review, Fielding offers an unfavorable assessment of Promiscuities.]
You remember Naomi Wolf. She was the author of a much discussed article in The New Republic titled "Our Bodies, Our Souls." In it she coaxed her fellow pro-choicers to admit that abortion does kill a human being and is usually undertaken for reasons of convenience and therefore could be, may be, might be wrong. She got in some sharp jabs at the self-serving obfuscations of her allies on the Left, but ultimately her efforts petered out into suggestions on how to establish...
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Jean Bethke Elshtain (review date 6 June 1997)
SOURCE: Elshtain, Jean Bethke. "Danger in Paradise." Times Literary Supplement (6 June 1997): 12.
[In the following excerpt, Elshtain offers a mixed assessment of Promiscuities.]
Naomi Wolf is another child of the revolution. She grew up in its Mecca, the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco. She watched her parents shed the garments of what had become a despised conformism and take on new personae: Mom in mini-skirts, hair flying, wearing dark kohl eyeliner, the sexual object with whom her daughter fell into a weird competition; Dad as renewed adolescent, taking up vampires as his hobby. Wolf, too, must stamp out "repressive hypocrisy" wherever she finds...
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Annie Gottlieb (review date 9 June 1997)
SOURCE: Gottlieb, Annie. "First Person Sexual." Nation (9 June 1997): 25–28.
[In the following review of Promiscuities, Gottlieb criticizes Wolf's "reverent rhetoric" and selective history of non-Western cultural practices.]
I'll never say another bad word about the memoir. Reading Promiscuities, which aspires to be so much more—to vault from the "first person sexual" into cultural critique and change-the-world exhortation—I was at first exhilarated by the grandeur of its reach, a familiar yet oddly dated emotion I traced to the early seventies. Here was a throwback to an earlier, nervier genre, a feminist Big Book à la Beauvoir and...
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Wendy Smith (essay date 30 June 1997)
SOURCE: Smith, Wendy. "Naomi Wolf: Confessions of a Feminist." Publishers Weekly (30 June 1997): 56–57.
[In the following essay, Smith provides an overview of Wolf's life, career, and critical reception upon the publication of Promiscuities.]
Discussing the books that have made her a prominent figure in the feminist generation she has dubbed the "Third Wave," Naomi Wolf is articulate and forceful. When she feels something she wrote has been misinterpreted, she can be emphatically (albeit politely) combative. But she reveals another side after a fan approaches her in the Gramercy Tavern, praises her books, and urges, "Keep up the good work!" Wolf thanks...
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Naomi Glauberman (review date 27 July 1997)
SOURCE: Glauberman, Naomi. "Hot and Bothered." Los Angeles Times Book Review (27 July 1997): 9.
[In the following review of Promiscuities, Glauberman finds shortcomings in the book's lack of focus and organization.]
Naomi Wolf, either through brilliance or luck, captured the gold ring of feminist punditry with the publication of her first book, The Beauty Myth in 1991. Her denunciation of the cosmetic industry in her discussion of beauty, health and feminism resonated with a new generation of young women, many of whom had never read a feminist text. Her second book, Fire with Fire (1994), shifted gears. In her new role as public feminist, she...
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Diana Schaub (review date fall 1997)
SOURCE: Schaub, Diana. "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun." Public Interest, no. 129 (fall 1997): 116–24.
[In the following review of Promiscuities, Schaub commends the seriousness of Wolf's feminist concerns, but faults her "sloppy" eclecticism and contradictory aims.]
Clearly, it will not be supplied by Naomi Wolf, whose new book, Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood, shows her to be still in quest of "a better time." The book is an evocative recounting of the sexual coming of age of Wolf and her friends in the San Francisco of the 1960s and 1970s, interspersed with potted summaries of the sexual mores of other times and places. In...
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Wendy Shalit (review date December 1997)
SOURCE: Shalit, Wendy. "Daughters of the (Sexual) Revolution." Commentary 104, no. 6 (December 1997): 42–45.
[In the following excerpt, Shalit offers an unfavorable assessment of Promiscuities.]
The signals of distress currently coming from the fairer sex merit a hearing. They issue from books and magazine articles, and they are echoed in the often impossibly contradictory statements by leaders and spokesmen of the feminist movement on themes ranging from women in combat roles to the threat ostensibly posed to womankind by the all-male Promise Keepers.
On the one hand, we are still being assured by feminists that any behavior on the part...
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Rebecca Abrams (review date 17 September 2001)
SOURCE: Abrams, Rebecca. "More Mummy Lit." New Statesman (17 September 2001): 55.
[In the following review of Misconceptions, Abrams commends Wolf's "determination" but finds flaws in the book's "hackneyed" and "self-indulgent" qualities.]
It was absolutely predictable that Naomi Wolf would write a book about motherhood [Misconceptions]. She belongs to a generation of women, which is also my generation, for whom becoming and being a mother have undone every comfortable feminist certainty we ever had, and whose trademark response is to write about it. Reared on a weirdly neutered brand of feminism, you regarded motherhood as just a vague...
(The entire section is 821 words.)
Marilyn Gardner (review date 27 September 2001)
SOURCE: Gardner, Marilyn. "The Baby Myth." Christian Science Monitor (27 September 2001): 19.
[In the following review, Gardner offers an unfavorable assessment of Misconceptions, commenting that the book is narcissistic and lacks specific examples to support many of Wolf's points.]
Pregnancy can be a joyous, wondrous time. In the eyes of Naomi Wolf, it can also be a period fraught with confusion, ambivalence, and conflict with medical professionals. As she warns at the beginning of her sobering, often angry book, Misconceptions, the experience of becoming a mother in America is "undersupported, sentimentalized, and even manipulated at women's...
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Further Reading
Bellafante, Ginia. "Do We Need More Oprahs?" Time (30 June 1997): 71.
Bellafante deplores Wolf's sketchy information and "dabblings in scholarship" in Promiscuities.
Douglas, Susan J., and Meredith Michaels. "The Belly Politic." Nation (26 November 2001): 26–29.
Douglas and Michaels offer a negative assessment of Misconceptions.
Duffy, Martha. "Tremors of Genderquake." Time (27 December 1993): 82.
Duffy faults Wolf for shifting from "serious argument" to "flights of rhetoric" and for cluttering Fire with Fire with lengthy...
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I feel that one of the joys of listening to Ms. Tippett's
I feel that one of the joys of listening to Ms. Tippett's interviews is not only her well-informed and astute questions, but also her ability to say, "I'm just a beginner here, can you explain that again". This in itself is delightful, but it also let's the listener know she is just one of us.

Yes. My question is this: in the 7 or 8 years of SOF,
Yes. My question is this: in the 7 or 8 years of SOF, where are your at-length interviews with the most articulate people who think that morals are not--as Mr. Haidt thinks--evolutionarily (i.e. relatively) existing, but absolute and intrinsic to every human person, even if we are in partial ignorance of them? Where are your interviews with the Peter Kreefts or Fr. Richard John Neuhaus's of the world? (If there are such interviews, I honestly would like to know. please email me the archive date)
Moreover, where are your interviews with people who can articulately defend--again I think of Peter Kreeft of Boston College or somone he, or Fr. Neuhaus, would recommend--the unique claims of Jesus Christ in all of history? (I don't start from the premise that Jesus's claims are true. I mean that his claims are, in context, unique in all of history. In that he said he was the transcendent God but did not act like a crazy person [as almost non-Christiansall admit he did not], was not a pantheist, and was not a constitutional liar [as almost all non-Christians admit]). Moreover there is the strong historical evidence for the Resurrection.

Yes, I think it's the moral matrix of postmodernism; the
Yes, I think it's the moral matrix of postmodernism; the desire to find connection points with every belief system; the intention to find these points of connection and honor all worldviews. I wouldn't go so far as to say that SOF presents all views as being true so much as suggesting that if you dig deep enough, the roots of truth can indeed connect more than you might imagine. I find this stance at once compelling and disturbing. Compelling because I myself am a peacemaker and want to agree with everyone and find truth in everything. Disturbing because I fear that I will bargain away too much in my desire to agree, and come to find that I've lost my way and still not found peace.

Perhaps this is, like so many things, really an issue of
Perhaps this is, like so many things, really an issue of balance --between accepting others' viewpoints and maintaining your own. As a production team we walk this line, between avoiding unnecessary provocation and offense, and presenting a perspective that is unique and challenging (but may provoke an allergic reaction from some.)

I don't know if comments on 2.5 year old blog posts get
I don't know if comments on 2.5 year old blog posts get any attention, but just in case, here goes: I would like to hear an interview with Jonathon Haidt on your program. I like his work which seems to be very much aligned with On Being. I arrived at this page when I searched the On Being web site for any references to him hoping to find a show in the past, but I found none. I hope you are trying to schedule a time with him, which I will eagerly await.
I have also recently discovered the work of Morris Fiorina, who is a political scientist who studies polling data and voting behavior. A major theme of his work in the last decade is that the "Culture War" meme, which dominates our conversations about politics and government, represents only a small minority of extremists on the political spectrum and leaves out 80 to 90% of the population: http://www.hoover.org/fellows/...

Greg, thanks for your suggestions and comments. I will
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It's funny here bc we have a SAMs and Costco across the street from one another. So if I can't find something at Sams, costco usually has it. Our other SAMs and Costco are also within a 1/4 mile of eachother as well across town. I was really surprise to see the 1 Sams not carrying the same bread flou selection as the other. A
What kind of pizza do you make Chet? Classic street styleNY? or something with a lighter crumb? Jackie I am now into the Neopolitan style round pies, 300gram about a 14" pie, also the sicilian with a 22oz dough ball, I was making chicago Deep dish for awhile, for now with the Peter Reinhart Neo Neopolitan recipe I am having good results on the tiles at 525 in Conv mode. also the black steel heavy pans are working nicely too with the Sicilian type pizzas. ChetPete W, thx for posting the protein content of the kyrol. I bet it's not too far off.
At Sam's Club of all places, I came upon a 25# sack of "Bakers & Chefs" bread flour for just $7.00. What the heck! A little research revealed it to be ConAgra's "Minnesota Girl" 11.8% protein enriched and bleached.


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My current predicament is that I am parsing a log file for a website to gather information for an admin page. The log file contains the time, userid, and session-token for each login the website completes. My goal is to end up with an integer that represents the number of unique users who logged into the site on a given day. Any ideas?
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WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama said in a nationally televised address Tuesday night that recent diplomatic steps offer "the potential to remove the threat of chemical weapons" inside Syria without the use of force, but he also insisted the U.S. military will keep the pressure on President Bashar Assad "and be ready to respond" if other measures fail.
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flextint wrote:Lorne Michael should offer 3,000 dollars for the remaining beatles to come on the show and do three songs together.Would be good for a laugh.This time Paul and ringo do the songs and put the joke to rest.And of course,take the check.
That would be poor taste in my opinion. I would get it but there would be those insulted cuz, well, John and George are dead, no reunion talk whatsoever. Now offering $3000 for a Wings reunion may have worked but again it would only have gone over if Linda was still with us. Nobody in their right mind would present that idea to Paul.
Now Paul should do a skit with surprise cameo with Ringo, offering $3000 for the original SNL cast to get together, what's fair is fair. Just think of the short bits that could be done, it would be hilarious. Lorne Michaels would love this, can't believe it hasn't been done yet.


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About the Author: Rashad Hussain serves as U.S. Envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference.
I recently returned from a week-long trip to Jeddah. In addition to meeting with government and OIC officials, I also had a chance to spend time with a number of civil society groups, including 12 young Saudi members of the Jeddah branch of the Global Entrepreneurship Organization. We had a very in-depth and candid conversation about the fiscal, social, and operational challenges to entrepreneurship in the Kingdom and in turn we explored ways for the Saudi Entrepreneurs to cooperate with the U.S. Mission, including the possibility of bringing U.S. trainers and businesspeople to Saudi Arabia to help the development of an entrepreneurial mentality. These young entrepreneurs have, without doubt, faced many obstacles, but I admire and encourage their commitment and energy.
Promoting entrepreneurship in Muslim communities around the world is one of the areas of partnership I will pursue as Special Envoy. As the President stated in his historic Cairo Speech, "all of us must recognize that education and innovation will be the currency of the 21st century, and in too many Muslim communities there remains underinvestment in these areas. I am emphasizing such investments within my country. And while America in the past has focused on oil and gas in this part of the world, we now seek a broader engagement."
As many of you may recall, earlier this year, the President, along with the Chamber of Commerce, hosted a Summit on Entrepreneurship that brought together more than 250 entrepreneurs from around the world to discuss best practices for advancing entrepreneurship. It was during this summit that Secretary Clinton announced a new program called E-Mentor Corps, which allows business leaders in the United States and overseas to serve as mentors to emerging entrepreneurs around the world. The American private sector has also answered the call by launching a new initiative called Partners for a New Beginning that will harness private sector resources and capabilities to advance entrepreneurship and economic opportunity, particularly for youth. And we are all looking forward to the next global Entrepreneurship Summit, which will take place in Istanbul during the summer of 2011.
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The Business Secretary Vince Cable is to ask recruitment agencies to reveal how many women they place in senior positions, as part of moves to encourage companies to boost the participation of women in the boardroom.
Moves to encourage more women to become directors appear to be gathering pace, with industry initiatives helping the proportion of women appointed directors in FTSE100 companies to double over the past year, according to the latest figures from Lord Davies's inquiry into male dominance in the boardroom.
Now Cable is urging executive search firms to publish the numbers of men versus women they place in senior positions to highlight firms that are tackling gender imbalance in UK companies.
The move was unveiled this morning at an update by the 30% Club, a group of executives founded and led by Newton Investment Management chief executive Helena Morrissey, which aims is to boost the proportion of women on UK corporate boards to 30% by 2015.
Cable called on headhunters to publish the placement information as part of a transparency exercise.
In a statement, Cable said: "Headhunters have a crucial role to play in making sure there is a diverse pool of talent for business to choose from. So we are urging them to fish in a bigger pond, to identify new talent and to shine a spotlight on the selection and appointments. I'm delighted that eight executive search firms have today agreed to publish the data they collect on the percentages of men and women long listed, shortlisted and appointed to executive positions. This will allow businesses to work with search firms that promote and are transparent about this agenda."
He said he was writing to every company and public body in which the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills holds an interest, and will ask ministerial colleagues to do the same.
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The 30% Club meeting also revealed the latest six monthly findings from the Davies Committee progress report.
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Those looking to get a flu vaccine can contact Hamilton County public health to schedule an appointment. Kroona said that appointments are required because public health does not have vaccines on location but can still acquire vaccines. Public health began moving into its new facility at 820 James St. in Webster City on Wednesday. Kroona said the new facility will be opened on Jan. 22.


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Norma, when it comes to pizza (as well as food in general), my taste buds have a photographic memory. My most vivid memories revolve around food- around taste.My local neighborhood pizzeria, Suvios, opened in 1979. Because they had video games in the back, and because there was a video game arcade a couple doors up, from the moment it opened, I was there almost every non school non sleeping moment. Right now, I can close my eyes and go right back to that taste. The little bit of char on the undercrust, the almost white incredibly puffy rim, the gummy pink nodules of the crust when you pull the cheese away. It's seared into my mind. I can't really remember my first kiss as well as I can remember my first slice My closest description would be Best, but puffier and far more flavorful. Most of my adult life was spent trying to recreate that slice, and, for the most part, I'm confident that I have.When Suvios opened, for about the first 5 years, they traded county newspaper accolades with a place across town, Pete's. Pete's was a little more golden brown and had a lot more oregano. This was all happening when I was in junior high school, so I didn't have access to a car, but I had a bike, and I biked to Pete's quite a lot. I recall being dropped off at the library once, and rather than studying, walking to Pete's for a slice and Baskin Robbins for a chocolate shake Pete's was different, but just as phenomenal as Suvios and well worthy of the awards.The moment I got my driver's license, I was in the family car driving everywhere. My friends and I covered unbelievable ground. We didn't cross over the Hudson River, but we ate pizza all over Northern NJ. And we weren't obsessives. We were just teenagers, getting into trouble, and grabbing a slice. Back then, that was pretty much what teenagers ate. Suvios and Pete's were a bit of a pinnacle of the pizza at the time. The huge slices in Hoboken where in this realm as well, but everything seemed to be a notch below. But that notch was minimal. It was like Suvios/Pete/Hoboken were a 10 and everywhere else was 9.75. You'd be really hard pressed to find anything mediocre. It wasn't until about 15 years later, when I moved into Manhattan where I first started discovering mediocre, uninspired pizza (midtown! ). At the same time, though, I also discovered Joes. If Suvios was a 10, Joes circa 1993 was an 11- at the time, Joe's was another universe. But 1993 takes us outside of the era presently being discussed. From 1979 through 1990, in Northern NJ (and most likely all the outer boroughs, since the same Italian American population was distributed throughout these areas fairly equally) it was as difficult getting a less than great slice as it is to find a decent slice now- an entire region of 9.75 to 10 quality pizza transformed into almost ubiquitous 2-4 grade pies. Suvios is still around, as is Pete's, but, like everywhere else, it's all taken a turn towards mediocrity.
Norma,It appears that the recipe that BenLee posted was a home recipe, not a commercial one. I am using my iPad today and can't show you the dough formulation usig the expanded dough calculating tool, but three cups of flour with 1 1/2 cups of water yields a hydration of over 80%, even when using a high gluten flour measured out with a fairly heavy hand (scooping, shaking, etc.). Also, a full packet of yeast would correspond more to an emergency type of dough. It's also hard to know what to make of the small amounts of salt and oil called for by the recipe at this point.Peter
Just about everywhere was better then And this isn't old man rose tinted "things just aren't what they used to be" glasses I'm wearing, either. Pizza was way better.
Why do you think the great pizzas have gone downhill, except for changing people in the same pizza businesses?
The steep decline in pizza quality in my town is what led me to hunt for better ways to make pizza at home. Of course, that led me here. The very last pizza place in Toledo that I liked, started to go downhill and I was panicked that I'd have nowhere to get good pizza anymore. Yea, pizzamaking.com. Even if I never make another new pizza style or version, I'm still set for life for high quality pizza.
I am glad I found this thread, this the same kind of pizza that I grew up eating in Adelaide, South Australia.A thin crust with a little bit of chewiness and a slightly crispy thicker rim with some air bubbles.My current favorite takeaway in Bangkok also does a similar pizza but unfortunately the pizza in the photo below had a little bit less air bubbles and the rim was thinner than usual. They properly rolled out the trapped air bubbles, which I don't like as much.Next step is to try and replicate it when I next fire up the oven.
It's what led a lot of us here. When I moved to Austin, TX from upstate NY, there were very few decent pizza joints here. Thankfully, that's changed a lot in the past 8 years I've been on the site. Still... I've learned a lot more about pizza and what I like in pizza than I ever had before I got here.
BKK_Mick,I am glad you think this thread will help you made the style of pizza that you grew up eating in Adelaide, South Australia. I hope you will post some photos or let us know when you fire up your oven if you can achieve the style of pizza you want to create.What type of flours do you have available in Bangkok and what kind of oven do you use?Norma
Hi Norma,I'm currently using Gold Medal Better for Bread which seems to work well for NY style crusts and I also have some Divella Farina Tipo "00"I have a built a gas fire oven which I posted about here:http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,26688.0.htmlI'll definitely post some pics in the next few weeksCheers, Mick
Ronzo, where did you live in upstate NY?
I see Olympic Flame still managed the #2 spot...their pie must be pretty special. Have you tried very many of these places Norma? I love the looks Wildwood!
Norma,A solution I came up with and an unseen secret was blended Asiago finely grated blended into the tomato sauce. So the sauce looks like plain old tomato sauce...but it's not.When cooked the two cheeses blend together to create a different flavor.
Norma,I very much enjoyed reading about your quest for the right cheese. I too have been looking for a certain recipe. My research uncovered a source that may be helpful. There is a distributor that supplies many of the best rated pizzerias in the Monmouth county area and they deliver throughout the tri-state area.. Perhaps you want to contact them and see what you can find out. There's a good chance these guys deliver to them.http://www.destefanofood.com/index.htmlTake a look at the product list. maybe that have the cheese you are searching for.A solution I came up with and an unseen secret was blended Asiago finely grated blended into the tomato sauce. So the sauce looks like plain old tomato sauce...but it's not.When cooked the two cheeses blend together to create a different flavor.Hope this helps!
I'd buy a couple of those slices in heartbeat Norma! Who needs the Jersey shore when you're around?? --Tim
I went to the Sawmill on Seaside Heights boardwalk over the weekend which was one of my favorite boardwalk pies. And I have to tell you....it stunk! I guess after making my own pies for a few years now, I've become a pizza ssnob. And the funny part is that my wife is one as well...lol The crust was tasteless. Sauce eh. My wife described it as a saltine cracker without the salt. Below is a pic I took. Certainly looks and tasted like a same day dough. The slices are still HUGE, but that doesn't make it taste any better!


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IMHO the Gracies did their part in revolutionizing the sport. But for them to blab on like nearly two decades later and pretend the game revolves around them anymore then a billion other martial arts, its not only foolish, its just plain false.
Admited by yourself, they didnt create, they stood on the shoulders of the giants before them and took it one step further, just like Zuffa stood on their shoulders and continued the work. They are a link in the chain...a worthy link...but they are not some sorta relic that half their fans make out.
Suddenly this family isnt about exploiting a good business opportunity and a clever idea of how to hoist themselves above all others, (which was their aim, it was about proving their martial art, they, were better then anyone else. That is Extreme Right...and considered very wrong) and its become almost a cult within the sport. You wait til they all start dying off...then their pictures will be hung in huge frames above the door posts of their gyms, and suddenly, a fallable human being is practically being worshipped,
of course...tiz the way in the orient. But we've moved on. We dont need to bow to them because they "invented" MMA. Now we say, half of them were rubish to begin with, and beat people on a con, and the rest are getting so old they can no longer compete...sure there is the coverted black belts..but eventually that to will be killed off, when all the blackbelts are being distributed via second generation mentors, in essence, not Gracies at all, but well rounded men who have simply incorperated the Gracie aspect also.
There are one or two Gracies I like and think are alright...Royce is not one of them. Helio was
1. Who did the Gracies stand on?
What giants?
I think they did a LOT,
more so than any one group of people have minus the Dana/Zuffa trio.
For a matter of point, I also give Dana/Zuffa a LOT of credit for doing what they have done for MMA.
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I live out on Long island and am thinking about purchasing a kayak to get to a few spots and also to hunt from. Anyone have any advice or can share some experiences? Ive been looking and i think Im going to go with a Hobie Mirage drive. Either the pro angler or outback. Any input would be great. Thanks
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a friend of mine hunts from his kayak and it works good for him. he is just trying to figure out how to hook a trolling motor up to it
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I just got a Native kayak for fishing and hunting, it seems to be pretty stable, but haven't gotten to shoot out of it yet. What do you want to know about, I don't know much but maybe I can help
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Kayaks seem to be okay during early season, when the weather and water are warmer. Remember, if you use it into November you will be wearing more clothes and probably waders and a coat. You will also be way closer to colder water. They are not conducive to a quick exit either. I don't know where you live, but if it's up North like me, you might want to think twice about when and where to use it. I looked at one that I have, I was ready to trick it out with camo and a rack for the gun (was going to use those Y brackets for ATVs), but then realized that it was tough enough for me to get out of with shorts on - I'm not the most flexible fellow around - I couldn't imagine trying it with neoprene waders with 1200 gram thinsulate AKA Moon Boots. Just be safe.
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Rob, that's why I got a sit on top. It's easy to get in and out of and If it does flip it's self draining, where if you flip a Sit in Kayak It fills with water.
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I hunt from an old town 14' pathfinder canoe. I sit in the bow seat facing the stern using a kayak paddle. leave me enough from for a couple dozen dekes. a gun bag, shell bag, blind bag. once i set my dekes I then use my canoe as a layout blind if I'm hunting a really wet marsh. works great and I don't need a boat ramp thus shortening my trips to the areas I like to hunt. if I'm taking a buddy along he can sit on the bow seat and keep control of his dog while we're moving to our setup.
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Very good points SpongeRob. Ive looked around for a while now and you're definitely right ,Trout&Duck , the sit on top is the way to go. I've seen a few videos online and it just looks like a good time on the back rivers and waterways on the island. The Hobie Mirage drive kayaks have quite a price tag but its tough to beat a kayak you can operate hands free. Thank you guys for your inputs. I guess i dont have any real specific questions as of yet. I am just looking for any pointers trying to limit the growing pains of a brand new hunting method.
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My buddy and I started going the kayak route a few years ago and haven't looked back. You can get further than both the walk-in hunter and boat hunter. We have found it less of a hassle to load up a couple of kayaks in the back of the truck than back in a boat that ends up getting hung up on logs and in shallow water, etc. I got the cheap Pelican from Academy. My buddy spent the money for a quality brand and is twenty years older than me but takes about half as many paddles to get twice as far! We take them both on the lake or into the timber...what's funny about this picture is the boat and trailer in the background.
Edit-We have never actually hunted from them, but use them to get to the remote areas and then throw camo canvas over them.
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I've shot a bunch of ducks from a kayak. Probably not the smartest thing to hunt out of in cold weather but I'm guilty of it. The bigger the cock pit opening the better off you will be. Get the widest one you can find for obvious stability reasons. Of course with a kayak you will have to go really minimalist unless you have a floating sled to pull behind you. If money isn't an issue look at some of the small boats made for duck hunting such as 4 Rivers, Mo Marsh, etc. They WILL NOT track as good as a kayak can but they are still manageable over a short distance even though most people will say they aren't. For longer trips a trolling motor is key.
Hope this Helps give you an idea for some option of what to do.
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I hunted out of an 11' poke boat (28#) for about 10 years (even with a dog) and usually with a buddy to haul all the other stuff in another poke boat. max paddle was 1.5 miles. Average paddle about 3/4 mile. I do hunt where it rarely freezes, usually do not shoot from the kayak, rather use it to get to a good spot of small water across the big water. No motors are allowed where I hunt and rowing and hiding a jon boat was no fun on a ducky day. Started hunting by myself (with the dog), so I bought an old town predator with a large open cockpit (about 40#). After the first season I outfitted it with a rowing unit from springcreek outfitters, much better to move it and all the gear the boat will hold in any kind of wind. Used that setup for about 10 more years. 5 years ago bought a 4 rivers layout boat (110#), outfitted it with oarlocks and now use it most often. It has a popup blind and you can shoot from it, can carry more gear than I need and works better as I get older. I plan to do more kayak hunting this year tho, as I miss the minimalist days. The biggest drawback to the layout boat is the need for a launch ramp. If the water is not readily truck accessible I can pack or roll the kayak to it on most occasions.Good luck with your hunting.
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