Word: jong
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Erica Jong...
Although Any Woman's Blues employs an interesting technique for giving the author multiple voices and questioning the existence of a singular "I," Jong is all together too self-conscious at times...
...book proposes to detail Sand's quest for self-fulfillment, but Jong sets up an unrealistic dichotomy between self-love and romantic love, making the former emotional and the latter purely orgasmic. The men she loves don't love her, but they do give her multiple orgasms--they take her to Henry Miller's infamous "Land of Fuck...
...this "Land of Fuck" where Jong locates Any Woman's Blues, both as a title and as a concept. While Jong claims that the book "has as its theme a woman's search for a way out of addictive love and toward real selflove," the protagonist continues to flip back and forth between emotional and physical addiction, with a clear bent towards the physical...
This is particularly troubling given Jong's reputation as a feminist writer. True, the search to find satisfaction in developing a sense of self, not in male approval, was one of the important elements of the women's movement. But this story of a spoiled, self-indulgent woman who calls her twin girls "Mike" and "Ed" and falls for married men with bulges in their pants leaves the reader hard-pressed to find a strong feminist message. And it doesn't really address any woman's blues...