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Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent Hardcover – Illustrated, 2 Mar. 2021

by Katherine Angel (Author)
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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. In the name of consent and empowerment, they must proclaim their desires clearly and confidently. Yet sex researchers suggest that women's desire is often slow to emerge. And men are keen to insist that they know what women and their bodies want. Meanwhile, sexual violence abounds. How can women, in this environment, possibly know what they want? And why do we expect them to?

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. 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 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. Only then will we fulfil Michel Foucault's teasing promise, in 1976, that 'tomorrow sex will be good again' .

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  1. Print length
    160 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Verso
  4. Publication date
    2 Mar. 2021
  5. Dimensions
    13.54 x 1.55 x 20.55 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    1788739167
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1788739160
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H. Akande
4.0 out of 5 stars Challenges Western assumptions about female desire and consent! Solid read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 September 2021
British writer Katherine Angel challenges Western assumptions about female desire and consent in this provocative book.

Angel was disappointed by the media spectacle of the #MeToo movement, which she claims exploited women's stories for perverse means. Whilst she acknowledged the importance of the movement, she found the constant public depictions of women's assault stories were a form of gratification for the masses. She posits that some people get turned on by seeing women in pain and suffering. Angel questions modern feminism and contemporary sex researchers' findings about female desire.

Angel also questions feminists' instance on affirmation and consent rhetoric to liberate women. Angel aims to dismantle the "strong" and "positivity" language around sex for women, for a more realistic language position involving "fear," "risk" and "vulnerability." Angel calls for more discussions around pleasure as opposed to the legal concept of consent for better sex education. The author pushes against the current framework around consent which often omits pleasure, "good sex" and "bad sex" discussions. “In recent years, two requirements have emerged for good sex: consent and self-knowledge,” Angel writes.

The book itself is divided into four chapters; on consent, on desire, on arousal, and on vulnerability. Angel borrows the title of her book from a line in Michel Foucault’s extensive study of sexuality. The French philosopher was paraphrasing the stance of countercultural progressives in the 1960s and 70s when the consent culture began. Angel marks the development of "consent culture" from the “No means No” slogan of 1970s anti-rape campaigners through to the sex-positive “post-feminism” of the 1990s and early 00s.

The book is a thought-provoking and nuanced analysis on sexual consent in the age of #MeToo. A worthwhile read.
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Chantal Lyons
4.0 out of 5 stars Very much worth reading!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 March 2021
I am not familiar with the author's work, but I admit I had expected the book to be much more in the journalistic quasi-self-help vein of books like Emily Nagoski's 'Come As You Are' and various other titles, featuring interviews with or vignettes of women and their various experiences with sex.

Instead, 'Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again' is a highly academic text, the kind I might have expected to be assigned to read at university. This often does the author's vital analysis a disservice - there were many times when the same point was reiterated repeatedly and unnecessarily, and the language was often opaque. For example: "These kinds of maximally inclusive accounts in fact push the concept of 'reasons' to the limits of intelligibility".

That said, I honestly feel liberated by this book. It has torn the covers off so many social and cultural phenomena that have made me quietly uneasy without being able to articulate the reasons for this. The author's analysis was new and original to me, and yet, it instinctively spoke to me. Her prose could also - when not hung up on maintaining dry academic appearances - be astoundingly beautiful, profound, and even erotic.

This is a treatise that I wish every person in the world would read. I just hope the style of writing and argument doesn't put the book's potential readership off.
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5.0 out of 5 stars My students love this book
Reviewed in the United States on 7 September 2022
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Arrived on time, good shipping. The book itself has been the most popular book that I've offered the college students in my ethics of sex class.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Viele Fragen, wenig Antworten
Reviewed in Germany on 24 December 2022
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Die Autorin stellt viele relevante Fragen, hat aber wenig Antworten zu bieten. Ihre Kritik am Consent-Prinzip überzeugt aber nicht wirklich. Handwerklich und sprachlich ist das Buch auf gutem Niveau. Alles in allem 4/5 Sterne.
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Neha
5.0 out of 5 stars Must read..
Reviewed in India on 15 September 2022
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The book for all women as well as men.. tells the intricacies of female desire, arousal and consent..
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Na Go
5.0 out of 5 stars Un libro superrecomendable
Reviewed in Spain on 21 October 2021
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Un libro interesante sobre el placer.
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Kimberley G.
4.0 out of 5 stars Bought “New” but dust cover came torn.
Reviewed in the United States on 20 January 2022
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This review is for the seller, not for book content. The dust jacket came torn, so it was not in “new condition” as labeled. Otherwise nothing wrong that I can tell.
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Kimberley G.
4.0 out of 5 stars Bought “New” but dust cover came torn.
Reviewed in the United States on 20 January 2022
This review is for the seller, not for book content. The dust jacket came torn, so it was not in “new condition” as labeled. Otherwise nothing wrong that I can tell.
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