WOMEN, PASSION & CELIBACY

Carol Southern, New York, 1993, 1^st US/1^st pr.  ISBN 0-517-59738-1.  Former private library book, pocket at rear but no other markings or labels.  Hard cover, 280 pages including Notes, Bibliography and Further Reading, and Index.  Good plus; light edge wear, binding sound with headbands.  Dust jacket with price intact shows some edge and cover wear.  Interior clean and unmarked; fox spots on outer page block.  “We are living ... in a genitally fixated society, in which the only sexual activity considered freakish is NO sexual activity; in which anyone who professes a lack of interest in sex is deemed to be in need of a cure, alongside a cosmetic surgery industry geared to persuading women that it is healthy to be starved, snipped, and stitched in pursuit of a prolonged sexual shelf life.” (from front flap)