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"It's about time! Read this book."
"--Shere Hite, The Hite Report"
"With intelligence and flair, Gen-X feminist, journalist and
playwright Kamen (Feminist Fatale) presents an exhaustive study of
the sexual mores of the women in her generation. . . . Critical yet
nonjudgmental, Kamen's lively book is a welcome primer on
contemporary sexual ethics. . . . It's sure to be a hit among
feminists of all ages even while it raises eyebrows in other
camps."
"--PUBLISHERS WEEKLY"
"a]at times startling and at the very least amusinga]reading it
is an education. And now we know at least some of what educated
women stand to gain."
"--The New York Times Book Review"
"A refreshing surveya]Offers lucid analyses of the changing
content and understanding of sex."
"-- The Chicago Tribune"
"At last, the torch has been passed! Paula Kamen follows women's
struggle for sexual pleasure and self-affirmation into a new
generation - and finds it healthier and more vibrant than ever.
Young women will be fascinated by Her Way. Older ones will be
amazed."
"--Barbara Ehrenreich"
"At last, a book about young women's sexual behavior that's
actually written by a young woman! Paula Kamen documents women's
sexual truths without judgment and-more important-without all the
wrongheaded, double-standard-laden assumptions that all too often
plague writing on this topic. Kamen brings the focus back where it
should be: on women's own views, rather than others' views of
them."
"--Lisa Miya-Jervis, Bitch Magazine"
"A bold new look at female sexuality in America today. Based
onyears of meticulous research, Paula Kamen has produced a
fascinating, important study of how young women are redefining
their roles and relationships in a post-boomer world."
"--Iris Chang, author of The Rape of Nanking"
"Lively and entertaining, honoring the intimate voices of a
diversity of women, Her Way is an authoritative study of our long
slow journey toward sexual autonomy. Kamen is a savvy third wave
feminist who has done her homework. The book is a link between
generations, and a major stepping stone toward fuller liberation.
This is feminism for the 21st century!"
"--Barbara Seaman, coeditor of For Women Only: Our Guide to Health
Empowerment"
"Intellectual, political, and compassionate, Her Way shows that
the freedom to live and love by our own standards-with men on our
good side-is the way toward the social change that, truly, begins
in our social lives."
"--Lynn Harris, author of Breakup Girl to the Rescue! A Superhero's
Guide to Love, and Lack Thereof"
"Gives women cause to celebrate! Her Way shows how, for perhaps
the first time in history, a generation of young women is truly
defining sex on its own terms. Her nuanced analysis of this quiet
but undeniable trend is optimistic while not shying away from the
problems that remain, including the inertia of a mainstream popular
culture that insists on portraying women as sexy rather than as
sexual beings in their own right."
"--Lisa Douglass, coauthor of Are We Having Fun Yet? The
Intelligent Woman's Guide to Sex"
"Chronicles the complex ways young women understand and
experience sexuality today. In this collection, Kamen draws on
interviews, reports, and studies to weave an analysis of how Gen-X
womendefine and adopt sex roles and gendered responses to an
increasingly sexualized world. . . . Kamen concludes, rather
convincingly, that young women are finally beginning to make their
own rules, instead of blindly obeying those made by others and, as
a result, are leading more fulfilling lives."
"--MS. MAGAZINE"
"If women's sexual mores become more like men's, is that
progress? Paula Kamen seems to think so, based on HER WAY. . . .
Kamen backs her assertions with a panoramic breadth of
scholarship-pretty much every major piece of sex research for the
last hundred years shows up in HER WAY, including some fascinating
surveys of women born in the nineteenth century."
"--NERVE"
"Lively and entertaining, honoring the intimate voices of a
diversity of women, Her Way is an authoritative study of our long
slow journey toward sexual autonomy. Kamen is a savvy third wave
feminist who has done her homework. The book is a link between
generations, and a major stepping stone toward fuller liberation.
This is feminism for the 21st century!"
--Barbara Seaman, Co-editor of "For Women Only: Our Guide to Health
Empowerment"
"The next time you're having an argument with some asshole over
the fact that women can have just as high a sex drive and the same
ability to know their desires as men, just pull out this book. . .
. It's a great book to help you get an overall feeling for the
sexual attitudes of chicks these days. . . . a must-have for any
feminist home."
"--BUST"
Three decades after the Sexual Revolution, women's power and
status have begun to match men's, and women are finally making the
rules in order to experience a more radical and truer form of
liberation.
Her Waydemonstrates how and why 20- and 30-something women have
evolved to act and think more like men sexually, while also
creating their own distinct sexual patterns and appetites. Today's
young women are now the leaders of an unreported but sweeping
"Sexual Evolution," in which women take control of sex and redefine
it from their perspective. In other words, do it "her way."
Paula Kamen characterizes this Sexual Evolution according to two
major developments that are setting sexual patterns for future
generations of women: young women's sexual profiles are now
remarkably similar to those of men, in terms of age of first
intercourse, and numbers of sex partners and casual encounters.
They also feel less guilt or shame about their behavior, from
premarital sex to having a child out of marriage to coming out of
the closet to cohabiting.
Yet young women are not merely imitating men, but forging their
own distinct sexual perspectives and asserting their own needs. In
addition to discovering the pleasures of sex, young women are also
exploring the dilemmas, challenging male-defined sexual scripts,
and changing what actually goes on in bed.
Based on more than one hundred lively, unfiltered and in-depth
interviews with women across the country, Her Way cuts through the
sensationalism and speculation of popular discussions about young
women and sex. Kamen reports the real story of today's enhanced
sexual expectations and choices.
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