Deborah Levy, author of The Cost of Living "One of our most daring, exciting and nuanced writers on the complexities of female desire, pleasure, autonomy and imagination." A truly vital guide to navigating the difficult waters of 21st century desire." "An ardent, rigorous, nuanced investigation into the question of consent, at once illuminating and empowering. Readers will value this lively and incisive inquiry into the sexual dynamics of the #MeToo era." "Thought-provoking … jargon-free prose and nuanced readings of popular culture and postmodern theory enlighten. Only then will we fulfil Michel Foucault's teasing promise, in 1976, that "tomorrow sex will be good again."
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. 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 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. How can women, in this environment, possibly know what they want? And why do we expect them to? And men are keen to insist that they know what women-and their bodies-want. Yet sex researchers suggest that women's desire is often slow to emerge. In the name of consent and empowerment, they must proclaim their desires clearly and confidently. A provocative, elegantly written analysis of female desire, consent, and sexuality in the age of MeToo
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