55 Facts About Naomi Wolf

Naomi Rebekah Wolf was born on 1962 and is an American feminist author, journalist, and conspiracy theorist.

Since around 2014, Naomi Wolf has been described by journalists and media outlets as a conspiracy theorist.

Naomi Wolf has been criticized for posting misinformation on topics such as beheadings carried out by ISIS, the Western African Ebola virus epidemic, and Edward Snowden.

Naomi Wolf has objected to COVID-19 lockdowns and criticized COVID-19 vaccines.

Naomi Rebekah Wolf was born in 1962 in San Francisco, California, to a Jewish family.

Naomi Wolf's mother is Deborah Goleman Wolf, an anthropologist and the author of The Lesbian Community.

Naomi Wolf's father was Leonard Wolf, a Romanian-born scholar of gothic horror novels, faculty member at San Francisco State University, and Yiddish translator.

Leonard Naomi Wolf died from Parkinson's disease on March 20,2019.

Naomi Wolf has a brother, Aaron, and a half-brother, Julius, from her father's earlier relationship; it remained a secret until Naomi Wolf was in her 30s.

Naomi Wolf attended Lowell High School and debated in regional speech tournaments as a member of the Lowell Forensic Society.

Naomi Wolf attended Yale University, receiving her Bachelor of Arts in English literature in 1984.

Naomi Wolf's writing became so personal and subjective that her tutor advised against submitting her doctoral thesis.

Naomi Wolf ultimately returned to Oxford, completing her Doctor of Philosophy degree in English literature in 2015.

Naomi Wolf was involved in President Bill Clinton's 1996 reelection bid, brainstorming with Clinton's team about ways to reach female voters.

Naomi Wolf met with him every few weeks for nearly a year, according to the book Morris wrote about the campaign, Behind the Oval Office.

In 1991, Naomi Wolf gained international attention as a spokeswoman of third-wave feminism after the publication of her first book, The Beauty Myth, an international bestseller.

Naomi Wolf argues that "beauty" as a normative value is entirely socially constructed, and that the patriarchy determines the content of that construction with the objective to maintain women's subjugation.

Naomi Wolf proposes the concept of an "iron maiden", an intrinsically unreachable norm that is then used to physically and mentally punish women for failing to achieve and adhere to it.

Naomi Wolf condemns the fashion and beauty industries for exploiting women, but writes that the beauty myth pervades all aspects of human life.

Christina Hoff Sommers criticized Naomi Wolf for publishing the estimate that 150,000 women were dying every year from anorexia.

Naomi Wolf's citation came from a book by Brumberg, who referred to an American Anorexia and Bulimia Association newsletter and misquoted the newsletter.

Naomi Wolf acknowledged the error and changed it in future editions.

In 1995, for an article in The Independent on Sunday, British journalist Joan Smith recalled asking Naomi Wolf to explain her unsourced assertion in The Beauty Myth that the UK "has 3.5 million anorexics or bulimics, with 6,000 new cases yearly".

Naomi Wolf replied, according to Smith, that she had calculated the statistics from patients with eating disorders at one clinic.

Naomi Wolf doesn't begin to prove them because her logic is so lame, her evidence so easily knocked down.

Naomi Wolf wished to persuade women to reject "victim feminism" in favor of "power feminism".

Naomi Wolf uses cross-cultural material to try to demonstrate that women have, across history, been celebrated as more carnal than men.

Naomi Wolf describes the "vacuous impassivity" of the ultrasound technician who gives her the first glimpse of her new baby.

Naomi Wolf's The Treehouse: Eccentric Wisdom from My Father on How to Live, Love, and See is an account of her midlife crisis.

Several years later in 2013, Mark Nuckols argued in The Atlantic that Naomi Wolf's supposed historical parallels between incidents from the era of the European dictators and modern America are based on a highly selective reading in which Naomi Wolf omits significant details and misuses her sources.

Naomi Wolf returned to her The End of America theme in a Globe and Mail article in 2014, considering how modern Western women, born in inclusive, egalitarian liberal democracies, are assuming positions of leadership in neofascist political movements.

At a party organized to celebrate Naomi Wolf's publishing deal for this book, the male host invited guests to make pasta pieces shaped like vulvas.

Naomi Wolf came to view this as mocking, and recounted feeling pressured to remain silent as the butt of a joke, something she said women often feel pressured to do.

Naomi Wolf said the incident resulted in her having writer's block for the next six months.

Naomi Wolf cited a website for the Old Bailey Criminal Court, which Wolf had referred to in the interview as one of her sources.

At the Hay Festival in Wales in May 2019, a few days after her exchange with Sweet, Naomi Wolf defended her book and said she had already corrected the error.

Naomi Wolf expressed hope that the book would still be published in the US.

Oxford University stated that a "statement of clarification" to Naomi Wolf's thesis had been received and approved, and would be "available for consultation in the Bodleian Library in due course".

Naomi Wolf had submitted the thesis to the archive in December 2020, more than five years after her DPhil was awarded, and had requested a one-year extension to the embargo period so that she could seek legal advice.

Naomi Wolf has commented about the dress required of women living in Muslim countries.

Naomi Wolf has made prediction after prediction that has simply not come to pass.

Shortly after Julian Assange was arrested in 2010, Naomi Wolf wrote in an article for The Huffington Post that the allegations two women made against him amounted to no more than bad manners from a boyfriend.

On October 18,2011, Naomi Wolf was arrested and detained in New York during the Occupy Wall Street protests, having ignored a police warning not to remain on the street in front of a building.

The response to this article ranged from praise to criticism of Naomi Wolf for being overly speculative and creating a conspiracy theory.

Naomi Wolf responded that there was ample evidence for her argument, and proceeded to review the information available to her at the time of the article, and what she alleged was new evidence since that time.

Naomi Wolf charged that the US was dispatching military troops not to assist in treating the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa, but to carry the disease back home to justify a military takeover of the US She further said that the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, in which Scotland voted to remain in the UK, was faked.

Naomi Wolf said that "Every human right in law is being violated", that Australians are being "lied to over and over", and that Australians are being psychologically tortured.

Naomi Wolf pointed to $1 million she said Fauci had received from Israel.

Naomi Wolf has frequently shared conspiracy theories concerning the safety and efficacy of vaccines against COVID-19.

In January 2023, Wolf appeared with Steve Bannon in his War Room show on Robert J Sigg's Real America's Voice television network.

On November 23,2018, Naomi Wolf married Brian William O'Shea, a US Army veteran, private detective, and owner of Striker Pierce Investigations.

Wolf is often confused with author Naomi Klein; this confusion is a major subject of Klein's 2023 book Doppelganger, which Wolf did not contribute to despite numerous attempts by Klein to contact her.

Naomi Wolf said that what she alleged Bloom did was not harassment, either legally or emotionally, and she did not think herself a "victim", but that she had harbored this secret for 21 years.

In January 2018, Naomi Wolf accused Yale officials of blocking her from filing a formal grievance against Bloom.

On January 16,2018, Naomi Wolf said, she determined to see Yale's provost, Ben Polak, in another attempt to present her case.