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Jaclyn Friedman
Jaclyn Friedman is a writer, performer, and activist, and the editor of the hit book Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape (one of Publishers' Weekly's Top 100 Books of 2009).Friedman is a popular speaker on campuses and at conferences across the U.S. and beyond.... show more

Jaclyn Friedman is a writer, performer, and activist, and the editor of the hit book Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape (one of Publishers' Weekly's Top 100 Books of 2009).Friedman is a popular speaker on campuses and at conferences across the U.S. and beyond. She has been a guest on BBC World Have Your Say, Democracy Now, To The Contrary, and numerous other radio and television shows, and her commentary has appeared in outlets including CNN, The Washington Post, The Nation, Jezebel, Feministing.com, The American Prospect, Bitch, AlterNet, and The Huffington Post. She is a SheSource expert, and was named one of 2009's Top 40 Progressive Leaders Under 40 by the New Leaders Council.Friedman is a founder and the Executive Director of Women, Action & the Media, a national organization working for gender justice in media. She is also a charter member of CounterQuo, a coalition dedicated to challenging the ways we respond to sexual violence.
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Chris' Fish Place
Chris' Fish Place rated it 12 years ago
Sex. This book is about sex and how society sees sex. Honestly, if you are a women read this book. If you are worried about sex ed in school, read this book. There are various topics covered in this collection, mostly about sexually and rape. (The weakest one I thought, strangely, was the essay...
willaful
willaful rated it 12 years ago
A mind-blowing collection of essays about how “rape culture” affects women -- and men -- and how seeing and rebuilding the world in terms of “consent culture” would empower us all.
Rose Lerner
Rose Lerner rated it 14 years ago
Perspectives on rape culture, limitations of the "rape culture" construction, and what to do about it. Some of the essays in this book were much better than others, but I gave it four stars anyway because the ones that were good were REALLY good.
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