A worthwhile anthology on the importance of reclaiming women's sexual agency through the concept of enthusiastic consent. Universities have tried to model sexual harassment and assault policy on this book which is a mistake. That's not what I believe it is for. It is instead a book about shifting our paradigms to recenter women's sexual agency and pleasure in our personal ethics and cultural representations. Pretty okay, skipped around/not totally engrossing. I half-read some other chapters but grew annoyed with what Yasmin Nair also commented on in their review--that many people are organizing/writing from a perspective of being entrenched in either the nonprofit or academic industrial complex and that kind of capitalist/commodifying influence permeated a lot of writing in this book. For that reason, a significant chunk of this anthology felt too restrained/contained for me to prioritize reading all of it. I read the following chapters in full and had to return to library several times/got fined/lol:Queering Black Female Heterosexuality (Springer)What It Feels Like When It Finally Comes: Surviving Incest in Real Life (Piepzna-Samarasinha)A Love Letter From an Anti-Rape Activist to her Feminist Sex Toy Store (Riggs)The Not-Rape Epidemic (Peterson) Killing Misogyny: A Personal Story of Love, Violence, and Strategies for Survival (Tzintzun) Chapters especially worth reading, in my humble opinion: those of Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Kimberly Springer :D.
Such a great read, it makes me want to grab my pink hammer and go smash the patriarchy!
—Has
All I have to say about this book is, "Thank you, thank you, thank you!"
—kehau96701
Setting this aside for now, simply don't have the time or energy.
—Met
Outstanding. Everyone should read this book.
—faurypartyforlauren
—AlePanqueca99
