Natasha Bauman is an American novelist. She is the author of The Disorder of Longing, a historical novel set in Victorian-era Boston. The Disorder of Longing examines the effects of karezza on a marriage. Karezza was a sexual technique developed by Alice Bunker Stockham during the Victorian era. Stockham contended that for a man and woman to reach a sort of spiritual bliss in marriage, they should avoid orgasm (which she referred to as "crisis") unless they intended to have children. Bauman looks at what might happen in a restrictive marriage that incorporates this approach to sexuality.
Biography
Born in Long Beach, California, Bauman's family moved a great deal. She attended schools in Idaho; Palo Alto, California; and Santa Cruz, California. She attended the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington for one year, then left to study and perform as a dancer. She spent a year in New York City, where she studied at Alvin Ailey's American Dance Theater. She moved to Los Angeles, California to dance in film and TV and to study acting. She appeared in small parts on the television series MASH in the 1980s.
She married, had two children, and returned to school in Los Angeles. She graduated from UCLA summa cum laude and with Highest Honors in English in 2000. She went on to earn a Master's in English/Creative Writing from Loyola Marymount University and an MFA in Creative Writing/Fiction at Vermont College of Fine Arts. She completed The Disorder of Longing while in the MFA program.
Bauman is a college writing and literature instructor, and is working on her second novel, North of the Slot, a historical novel set in the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
Bibliography
* Bauman, Natasha, The Disorder of Longing, Putnam, 2008
* Bauman, Natasha, IMDB
* Stockham, Alice B, Karezza: The Ethics of Marriage, Kessinger Publishing, 2004
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