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96/100Author:
Katherine Angel
Publisher:
Verso
Date:
March 2, 2021
An analysis of female desire, consent, and sexuality in the age of #MeToo.
What The Reviewers Say
Angel writes witheringly of 'confidence feminists,' who object to female hesitance and uncertainty.
As consent culture has evolved, it has assumed some of the characteristics of Sheryl Sandberg-style confidence feminism, prizing sassy self-expression and individual empowerment over political transformation. The risk for Angel is that exhorting women to know and express their desires in the language of positive affirmation places the responsibility for preventing sexual violence on women’s conduct, rather than examining why violence occurs in the first place.
Angel uses snippets of contemporary culture to illustrate her arguments.
... as Katherine Angel shows in her succinct and thought-provoking book Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again, consent itself is a murky concept that cannot be separated from existing power dynamics.
