Desire : women write about wanting / edited by Lisa Solod Warren.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Warren, Lisa Solod.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Desire.

Lust.

Women--Sexual behavior.

Women.

Women--Psychology.

Physical Description:

xii, 301 pages ; 21 cm

Other Title:

Women write about wanting

Place of Publication:

Emeryville, CA : Seal Press, [2007]

Summary:

A captivating collection of essays, "Desire" delves headfirst into its subject matter and explores the complexity of desire with essays about the things women want, crave, lust after, and covet. An extraordinary group of writers tackle difficult and taboo subjects, from Debra Magpie Earling' s desire to hurt someone, to "New York Times" writer S. S. Fair' s less than diminishing sensual and sexual desire, despite her increasing age, to Julia Serano' s strong emotional impulse to be a woman before she decided to transition from male to female. Many of these essayists examine the feelings and experiences which surround the things they want but can' t- or shouldn' t- have. The reasons such desires are taboo are often personal and range from social conventions and religious teachings to more concrete laws and rules. "Desire" makes the private public and illuminates the rich and varied desires women have.

Contents:

Still horny after all these years / S.S. Fair

Where sluts fear to tread / Rachel Kramer Bussel

The ketchup-lit skirt / Vicki Hendricks

Younger than winter / Jane Juska

The ring / Rosemary Daniell

Makeup and mud puddles / Daphne Gottlieb

Two cups orgasm, a measure of taboo / Connie Baechler

At odds / Julia Serano

Women writing desire / Ruth Knafo Setton

After the happily ever after / Lisa Solod Warren

Desire and taboo : seduction by a saint from Byzantium / Myrna Kostash

Hitting back / Debra Magpie Earling

Is time on my side? / Zoe Fairbairns

Death and the desire to live deliberately / Maggie Bucholt

No other medicine but hope / Myra Goldberg

Desirelessness : the greatest desire / Melissa Pritchard

My desire / Joyce Maynard

Babyquest / K.W. Oxnard

Wanting my daughter's children / Sharon Leiter

Writing my way back home / Erica Jong

The root of all evil / Janice Eidus

Neighborhood of desire / Cathryn Hankla

My lover, my home

Jenny Siler.

Notes:

Essays.

ISBN:

9781580052146

1580052142

OCLC:

154699361