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Discover the thought-provoking book 'Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent' by Katherine Angel. In this insightful exploration, readers delve into the intricate relationship between women’s desire, consent, and societal expectations. Surrounded by the complex discussions of empowerment, consent, and sexual violence, this book unearths the reality of women's desires as often being slow to emerge. Angel challenges prevailing narratives that presume women must always confidently articulate their wants, shedding light on the pressures and misconceptions surrounding female sexuality.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781788739207
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages: 144
Description:
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'
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781788739207
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages: 144
Description:
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'