Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again
- 144 pages
- 6 hours of reading
A provocative, elegantly written analysis of female desire, consent, and sexuality in the age of MeToo
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This author delves into the intricate intersections of sexuality, feminism, and science. Her writing, grounded in rigorous historical and philosophical research, offers a penetrating examination of societal constructions of desire and gender. Blending academic precision with literary grace, her work tackles the most challenging aspects of human intimacy. She provides readers with a thought-provoking yet sensitive exploration of subjects often difficult to articulate.
- 2022
- 2021
Tomorrow sex will be good again : women and desire in the age of consent
- 144 pages
- 6 hours of reading
A provocative, elegantly written analysis of female desire, consent, and sexuality in the age of MeToo 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.”
- 2019
Daddy Issues
- 128 pages
- 5 hours of reading
Contemporary feminism has re-embraced thinking about the big ideas - patriarchy, capitalism, care. But contemporary concern about men tends to relate to the men in our lives other than our fathers: our partners, friends, colleagues, bosses - many of whom are also, of course, fathers. Discontent with fathers has increasingly been privatised within feminist discourse. Daddy issues have been relegated to the realm of personal problems individuals take to therapists. In this bold, daring essay Katherine Angel asks: what is the father-daughter relationship today? How can it be understood politically? What political harms are done in the name of a father's love? Drawing on classic works by Virginia Woolf and Valerie Solonas along with more recent examples drawn from literature, film and TV, Angel examines how artists have conveyed the painful powers of the father in relation to the daughter.
