Bibliograph

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

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Label

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-147)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Tomorrow sex will be good again

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Katherine Angel

Sub title

women and desire in the age of consent

Summary

Women are in a bind. They are told that in the name of sexual consent and feminist empowerment, they must proclaim their desires clearly and confidently. Sex researchers tell us that women don't know what they want. And men are on hand to persuade women that what they want is, in fact, exactly what men want. In this environment, how can women possibly know what they want-and how can they be expected to? In this elegantly written, searching book Katherine Angel surveys medical and psychoanalytic understandings of female desire, from Freud to Kinsey to present-day science; MeToo-era debates over consent, assault, and feminism; and popular culture, TV, and film to challenge our assumptions about female desire. Why, she asks, do we expect desire to be easily understood? Why is there not space for the unsure, the tentative, the maybe, the let's just see? In contrast to the endless exhortation to know what we want, Angel proposes that sex can be a conversation, requiring insight, interaction, and mutual vulnerability-a shared collaboration into the unknown. In this crucial moment of renewed attention to violence and power, Angel urges that we remake our thinking about sex, pleasure, and autonomy without any illusions of perfect self-knowledge. Only then will we bring about Michel Foucault's sardonic promise, in 1976, that "tomorrow sex will be good again."

Table Of Contents

On consent -- On desire -- On arousal -- On vulnerability

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