Published in 1973, Fear of Flying — a groundbreaking novel exploring the hitherto taboo subject of women’s sex lives and erotic fantasies — became an overnight sensation, making its author, 31-year-old Jewish New Yorker Erica Jong, a household name in the US and beyond. Nearly 50 years, millions of copies and a few husbands after, Jong looks back on her remarkably rich and varied career as an author and poet, whose trailblazing work has helped popularise the principles of feminist thought and challenge sexual and social norms. In the post Roe v. Wade era we now live, her sharp ideas are more relevant than ever before.

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