Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

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."

Author: Katherine Angel
Publisher: Verso
Published: 03/02/2021
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9781788739160
ISBN10: 1788739167
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory
- Social Science | Human Sexuality (see also Psychology | Human Sexuality)
- Social Science | Women's Studies

About the Author

Katherine Angel is the author of Unmastered, Most Difficult to Tell and Daddy Issues. She directs the MA in Creative and Critical Writing at Birkbeck, University of London, and has a PhD from the University of Cambridge.