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Wednesday Martin is an American social researcher, writer, and cultural critic known for her work on gender, sexuality, and social class. She holds a Ph.
Known for: Untrue: Why Nearly Everything We Believe About Women, Lust, and Infidelity Is Wrong and How the New Science Can Set Us Free
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Untrue: Why Nearly Everything We Believe About Women, Lust, and Infidelity Is Wrong and How the New Science Can Set Us Free
In Untrue, social researcher and cultural critic Wednesday Martin explores the myths and realities surrounding female desire, fidelity, and sexuality. Drawing on anthropology, sociology, and neuroscience, she challenges long-held assumptions about women’s sexual behavior and argues that female desire is far more complex, dynamic, and powerful than traditional narratives suggest. The book examines how cultural norms and evolutionary psychology have shaped our understanding of women’s sexuality and calls for a more liberated and evidence-based view.
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Historical Framing
The first place we must look, before we can even begin to understand women’s desire, is history — not the sanitized version, but the moral and patriarchal scaffolding that has shaped how we talk about sex for centuries. Across most societies that recorded their sexual codes, from early Western relig...
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Anthropological Evidence
Once we look outside our own cultural lens, the story of women’s sexuality transforms entirely. Anthropology offers one of the most powerful correctives to mainstream Western assumptions. In societies ranging from the Mosuo of China, where women traditionally choose lovers freely and nonexclusive re...
From Untrue: Why Nearly Everything We Believe About Women, Lust, and Infidelity Is Wrong and How the New Science Can Set Us Free
About Wednesday Martin
Wednesday Martin is an American social researcher, writer, and cultural critic known for her work on gender, sexuality, and social class. She holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature and cultural studies from Yale University and has written for major publications including The New York Times and The ...
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Wednesday Martin is an American social researcher, writer, and cultural critic known for her work on gender, sexuality, and social class. She holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature and cultural studies from Yale University and has written for major publications including The New York Times and The ...
Wednesday Martin is an American social researcher, writer, and cultural critic known for her work on gender, sexuality, and social class. She holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature and cultural studies from Yale University and has written for major publications including The New York Times and The Atlantic. Her previous book, Primates of Park Avenue, was a New York Times bestseller.
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