Tomorrow sex will be good again : women and desire in the age of consent / Katherine Angel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Angel, Katherine, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Sexual behavior.

Women.

Sexual consent.

Desire.

MeToo movement.

Physical Description:

147 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Verso, 2021.

Summary:

"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? 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 fulfill Michel Foucault's teasing promise, in 1976, that "tomorrow sex will be good again."--Amazon.com

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. On Consent

2. On Desire

3. On Arousal

4. On Vulnerability.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781788739160

1788739167

OCLC:

1230919123