Editing Naomi Wolf (section)

==Early life and education==
Naomi Rebekah Wolf was born in 1962<ref>{{cite web|url=https://wanderwomenproject.com/women/naomi-wolf/|title=Naomi Wolf, 1962|website=Wander Women Project|access-date=August 27, 2023|archive-date=August 27, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230827003010/https://wanderwomenproject.com/women/naomi-wolf/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="List97">{{cite news|last1=Donald|first1=Ann|last2=Wolf|first2=Ann|url=https://archive.list.co.uk/the-list/1997-04-18/87/|title=The Write Stuff|work=The List|date=April 18, 1997|access-date=April 9, 2021}}</ref> in [[San Francisco]], California, to a Jewish family.<ref>Wolf, in an interview on ''The Alex Jones Show'' podcast October 22, 08 @ 2:40:38 into the program: "Well, you know, I'm Jewish and so, you know, I think there's this very deep reaction in people with my ancestry because my dad's family was largely wiped out by the Holocaust, a sensitivity to travel restrictions because for people of my ethnicity there's a giant divide between people who got out before the border hardened during the National Nazi Socialist regime and those who waited a little too long. So I watch with concern when I travel, the growth of the [US] watchlist which is growing by 20,000 names a month."</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.sfgate.com/books/article/Naomi-Wolf-starts-listening-to-her-dad-12-tidy-2634704.php|title=Naomi Wolf starts listening to her dad / 12 tidy lessons in wisdom of the heart|date=May 15, 2005|access-date=November 18, 2018|work=San Francisco Chronicle|first=Bob|last=Blaisdell|archive-date=December 22, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181222221203/https://www.sfgate.com/books/article/Naomi-Wolf-starts-listening-to-her-dad-12-tidy-2634704.php|url-status=live}}</ref> Her mother is Deborah Goleman Wolf, an anthropologist and the author of ''The Lesbian Community''.<ref name="SFGate">{{cite news|last=Hix|first=Lisa|title=Did Father Know Best? In Her New Book, Third Wave Feminist Naomi Wolf Reconsiders Her Bohemian Upbringing|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/06/19/LVGESD6IJ21.DTL&hw=naomi+wolf&sn=001&sc=1000|access-date=December 15, 2010|newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle|date=June 19, 2005|archive-date=January 3, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090103212416/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2005%2F06%2F19%2FLVGESD6IJ21.DTL&hw=naomi+wolf&sn=001&sc=1000|url-status=live}}</ref> Her father was [[Leonard Wolf]], a [[Romania]]n-born scholar of gothic horror novels, faculty member at San Francisco State University, and [[Yiddish]] translator.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hix |first=Lisa |date=June 19, 2005 |orig-date=June 19, 2005 |title=DID FATHER KNOW BEST? / IN HER NEW BOOK, THIRD WAVE FEMINIST NAOMI WOLF RECONSIDERS HER BOHEMIAN UPBRINGING |url=https://www.sfgate.com/living/article/DID-FATHER-KNOW-BEST-IN-HER-NEW-BOOK-THIRD-2627411.php |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231229132856/https://www.sfgate.com/living/article/DID-FATHER-KNOW-BEST-IN-HER-NEW-BOOK-THIRD-2627411.php |archive-date=December 29, 2023 |access-date=August 27, 2023 |website=The San Francisco Gate |language=English}}</ref> Leonard Wolf died from [[Parkinson's disease]] on March 20, 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sfgate/obituary.aspx?n=leonard-wolf&pid=192024120|title=Leonard Wolf|website=SFGate|publisher=San Francisco Chronicle|date=March 20, 2019|access-date=December 11, 2020|archive-date=April 7, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190407032842/https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sfgate/obituary.aspx?n=leonard-wolf&pid=192024120|url-status=live}}</ref> Wolf has a brother, Aaron, and a half-brother, Julius, from her father's earlier relationship; it remained a secret until Wolf was in her 30s.<ref name="Baxter">{{Cite news|last=Baxter|first=Sarah|author-link=Sarah Baxter|url=https://www.thetimes.com/world/us-world/article/finding-her-heart-and-getting-a-divorce-vxmdxbgx65m|title=Finding her heart – and getting a divorce|date=January 8, 2006|work=The Sunday Times|location=London|access-date=September 26, 2019|issn=0956-1382|url-access=subscription|archive-date=September 26, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190926144344/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/finding-her-heart-and-getting-a-divorce-vxmdxbgx65m|url-status=live}}</ref>

Wolf attended [[Lowell High School (San Francisco)|Lowell High School]] and debated in regional speech tournaments as a member of the [[Lowell Forensic Society]]. She attended [[Yale University]], receiving her Bachelor of Arts in English literature in 1984. From 1985 to 1987, she was a [[Rhodes Scholarship|Rhodes Scholar]] at [[New College, Oxford]].<ref name="huffpo-blog">{{cite web|title=Naomi Wolf (biography and blog)|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf|work=The Huffington Post|access-date=December 15, 2010|archive-date=November 18, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101118010919/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf/|url-status=live}}</ref> Wolf's initial period at Oxford University was difficult, as she experienced "raw sexism, overt snobbery and casual antisemitism". Her writing became so personal and <!-- "polemical" in the Paul Harris article. -->subjective that her tutor advised against submitting her doctoral thesis. Wolf told interviewer [[Rachel Cooke]], writing for ''[[The Observer]]'', in 2019: "My subject didn't exist. I wanted to write feminist theory, and I kept being told by the dons there was no such thing." Her writing at this time formed the basis of her first book, ''The Beauty Myth''.<ref name="Harris">{{cite news|last=Harris|first=Paul|url=https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2011/oct/23/observer-profile-naomi-wolf|title=Naomi Wolf: true radical or ultra egoist? – Profile|date=October 22, 2011|work=The Observer|location=London|access-date=November 18, 2018|archive-date=November 20, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201120194824/https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2011/oct/23/observer-profile-naomi-wolf|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Cooke">{{cite news|last=Cooke|first=Rachel|author-link=Rachel Cooke|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/19/naomi-wolf-fight-for-democracy-free-speech-outrages-interview|title=Naomi Wolf: 'We're in a fight for our lives and for democracy'|work=The Observer|location=London|date=May 19, 2019|access-date=November 18, 2019}}</ref>

Wolf ultimately returned to Oxford, completing her [[Doctor of Philosophy]] degree in English literature in 2015. Her thesis, supervised by Stefano Evangelista of [[Trinity College, Oxford|Trinity College]], formed the basis of her 2019 book ''Outrages: Sex, Censorship, and the Criminalization of Love''.<ref name="IrishTimes">{{cite news |author-first=Fionola |author-last=Meredith |title=Naomi Wolf: 'Never before have I seen so many threats to free speech. It is chilling' |work=Irish Times |date=May 18, 2019 |archive-date=May 18, 2019 |access-date=May 25, 2019 |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/naomi-wolf-never-before-have-i-seen-so-many-threats-to-free-speech-it-is-chilling-1.3890733 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190518073912/https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/naomi-wolf-never-before-have-i-seen-so-many-threats-to-free-speech-it-is-chilling-1.3890733}}</ref><ref name="thesis" /> The thesis (which the journal ''Times Higher Education'' called "error-strewn") was subject to significant corrections of its scholarship, prompting several articles in the UK higher education press.<ref name="THE-2021-06-24"/>