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Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again
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A provocative, elegantly written analysis of female desire, consent, and sexuality in the age of MeToo 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."
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"Her jargon-free prose and nuanced readings of popular culture and postmodern theory enlighten."
"In her view, neither offers the emancipatory potential that their proponents would have us believe, as both underplay the contextual and emergent nature of desire."
"In the middle chapters, she walks us through a lot of other people's, mainly in the interest of throwing cold water on studies that purport to prove some objective truth about women and desire ..."
"Angel borrows her ironic title from the great theorist of power Michel Foucault, joining him in mocking the idea that political liberation will usher in a world of angst-free sex."
"Part of what bothers Angel is that formalising such an idiosyncratic, unwieldy thing as desire is practically impossible."
"Angel doesn't really offer us solutions but shows us some paths through the confusion, new ideals to strive for as we figure things out for ourselves."
"she makes a clear and well-researched case."
"As this slim yet philosophically dense volume suggests, consent doesn't guarantee enjoyable sex—and may in fact inhibit it ..."
"The Antioch policy allows for couples to negotiate throughout sex, deciding on the fly whether both of them are game to try this or that."
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