num_pages: 160
description: A provocative elegantly written analysis of female desire consent and sexuality in the age of MeTooWomen 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 wantand 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 vulnerabilitya 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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title: Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent
publisher: Verso