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Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent - Paperback

by Katherine Angel
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Availability:In StockContributor:Katherine AngelPublish date:2022-02-08Pages:160
Language:EnglishPublisher:VersoISBN-13:9781788739207ISBN-10:1788739205UPC:9781788739207Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Feminism & Feminist Theory, Human Sexuality (see also Psychology, Women's StudiesBook Topic:Human Sexuality)Size:7.70 x 5.10 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCJVYDVWDZ
A provocative, elegantly written analysis of female desire, consent, and sexuality in the age of MeToo

Women are in a bind. In the name of consent and empowerment, they must proclaim their desires clearly and confidently. Yet sex researchers suggest that women's desire is often slow to emerge. And men are keen to insist that they know what women--and their bodies--want. Meanwhile, sexual violence abounds. How can women, in this environment, possibly know what they want? And why do we expect them to?

In this elegant, searching book--spanning science and popular culture; pornography and literature; debates on Me-Too, consent and feminism--Katherine Angel challenges our assumptions about women's desire. Why, she asks, should they be expected to know their desires? And how do we take sexual violence seriously, when not knowing what we want is key to both eroticism and personhood?

In today's crucial moment of renewed attention to violence and power, Angel urges that we remake our thinking about sex, pleasure, and autonomy without any illusions about perfect self-knowledge. Only then will we fulfil Michel Foucault's teasing promise, in 1976, that "tomorrow sex will be good again."
Language:EnglishPublisher:VersoISBN-13:9781788739207ISBN-10:1788739205UPC:9781788739207Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Feminism & Feminist Theory, Human Sexuality (see also Psychology, Women's StudiesBook Topic:Human Sexuality)Size:7.70 x 5.10 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCJVYDVWDZ

Katherine Angel is the author of Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again, Daddy Issues, and Unmastered: A Book on Desire, Most Difficult to Tell. She directs the MA in Creative and Critical Writing at Birkbeck, University of London, and her writing has appeared in the Guardian, Granta, the White Review, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among other places. Katherine has a PhD in the history of psychiatry and sexuality from the University of Cambridge. Her research into "female sexual dysfunction," American psychiatry, sexology, and feminism has been published in journals including History of the Human Sciences, Studies in Gender and Sexuality and Current Opinion in Psychiatry.


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