What we don't talk about when we talk about #MeToo : essays on sex, authority & the mess of life / JoAnn Wypijewski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wypijewski, JoAnn, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex--Political aspects--United States.

Sex.

Sex--Political aspects.

United States.

Physical Description:

xxxiv, 286 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Verso, 2020.

Summary:

A searing indictment of modern sexual politics What if we took sex out of the box marked "special," either the worst or best thing that a human person can experience, and considered it within the complexity of reality? In this extraordinary book, despite longstanding tabloid-style sexual preoccupations with villains and victims, shame and virtue, JoAnn Wypijewski does exactly that. From the HIV crisis to the paedophile priest panic, Woody Allen to Brett Kavanaugh, child pornography to Abu Ghraib, Wypijewski takes the most famous sex panics of the last decades and turns them inside out, weaving what together becomes a searing indictment of modern sexual politics, exposing the myriad ways sex panics and the expansion of the punitive state are intertwined. What emerges is an examination of the multiple ways in which the ever-expanding default language of monsters and victims has contributed to the repressive power of the state. Politics exists in the mess of life. Sex does too, Wypijewski insists and so must sexual politics, to make any sense at all"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 The Secret Sharer p. 1

2 What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About #MeToo p. 41

3 A Boy's Life p. 61

4 The Wonder Years p. 93

5 Pictures from an Exhibition p. 103

6 Grand Guignol, American-Style: Convicting Woody Allen p. 117

7 Triangles p. 126

8 Sin, a Story of Life p. 130

9 The Upside of Censorship p. 169

10 Faith-Based Justice p. 175

11 Sexual Healing p. 190

12 Through a Lens Starkly p. 195

13 Judgement Days p. 200

14 Stripped p. 230

15 Make the Rules, Break the Rules and Prosper p. 235

16 James Baldwin: Habits of Thought p. 243.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1788738055

9781788738057

OCLC:

1112381462