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WOMEN ON TOP by Nancy Friday

Simon & Schuster

460 pages; $22

Nancy Friday's latest compilation of musings from women who responded anonymously to her sex questionnaire -- about as representative a group of people as those who call radio talk shows -- would not be quite so annoying if Friday didn't insist on patting herself on the back for her courage in pasting them together. Oh, the relief and gratitude women feel now that the Truth Can Finally Be Told by the dauntless Friday, selflessly taking on "the sex haters who will stop at nothing" to silence her.

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