Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape
In this groundbreaking new look at rape edited by writer and activist Jaclyn Freidman and Full Frontal Feminism and He’s A Stud, She’s A Slut author Jessica Valenti, the way we view rape in our culture is finally dismantled and replaced with a genuine understanding and respect for female sexual...
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In this groundbreaking new look at rape edited by writer and activist Jaclyn Freidman and Full Frontal Feminism and He’s A Stud, She’s A Slut author Jessica Valenti, the way we view rape in our culture is finally dismantled and replaced with a genuine understanding and respect for female sexual pleasure. Feminist, political, and activist writers alike will present their ideas for a paradigm shift from the “No Means No” model—an approach that while necessary for where we were in 1974, needs an overhaul today. Yes Means Yes will bring to the table a dazzling variety of perspectives and experiences focused on the theory that educating all people to value female sexuality and pleasure leads to viewing women differently, and ending rape. Yes Means Yes aims to have radical and far-reaching effects: from teaching men to treat women as collaborators and not conquests, encouraging men and women that women can enjoy sex instead of being shamed for it, and ultimately, that our children can inherit a world where rape is rare and swiftly punished. With commentary on public sex education, pornography, mass media, Yes Means Yes is a powerful and revolutionary anthology.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780786727056 (0786727055)
Publish date: December 2nd 2008
Publisher: Seal Press (CA)
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Essays,
Feminism,
Sociology,
Sexuality,
Womens,
Gender,
Gender Studies,
Womens Studies,
Social Movements,
Social Justice
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...
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.
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.