#Naomi wolf free

#Naomi wolf free

In a memorable exchange on BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking programme, however, its presenter Matthew Sweet pointed out that Dr Wolf’s claim that several gay men had been executed after 1857 – when Symonds was writing – was based on a misreading of criminal records. The American feminist, who came to prominence in the 1990s for her influential best-seller The Beauty Myth, has faced harsh criticism in recent years after errors were detected in her 2019 book, Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalisation of Love, about the 19th-century poet John Addington Symonds.ĭr Wolf, who based the book on her doctoral studies at the University of Oxford, identified Symonds as one of the founding fathers of the gay rights movement, examining his career against what she argued was a government crackdown on homosexual men – which, she said, included the threat of execution for sodomy.

Naomi Wolf is facing new questions over her historical research after it emerged that her doctoral dissertation was still not available to view almost six years after it was examined.