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'Captivating, emphatic and deeply inspiring, Sexual Revolution
lifted me greatly by envisioning the possibilities of our moment' V
(formerly Eve Ensler) 'Brilliant; vital; revolutionary' Kate Manne
_________________ This is a story about how modern masculinity is
killing the world, and how feminism can save it. It's a story about
sex and power and trauma and resistance and persistence. Sex and
gender are changing, and the world is changing with them. In this
time of crisis, we are also witnessing a productive transformation:
a revolutionary change in how we define gender, sex, consent and
whose bodies matter. This sexual revolution is a threat to the
social and economic order. It undermines the existing power
structures and weakens the authority of institutions from the waged
workplace to the nuclear family. No wonder the far right is
fighting back so hard. Told with Laurie Penny's trademark urgency
and candour, Sexual Revolution is a hand-grenade of a book: both a
manifesto for social change and a story of how feminism can save
us.
'I can't really think of another writer who so consistently and bravely keeps thinking and talking and learning and trying to make the world better' Caitlin Moran
Smart and provocative, witty and uncompromising, this collection of Laurie Penny's writing establishes her as one of the most urgent and vibrant feminist voices of our time. From the shock of Donald Trump's election and the victories of the far right, to online harassment and the transgender rights movement, these darkly humorous articles provoke challenging conversations about the definitive social issues of today.
Penny is lyrical and passionate in her desire to contest injustice; she writes at the raw edge of the zeitgeist at a time when it has never been more vital to confront social norms. These revelatory, revolutionary essays will give readers hope and tools for change from one of today's boldest commentators.
Shortlisted for The Green Carnation Prize 2014 'This is not a
fairytale. This is a story about how sex and money and power police
our dreams.' Clear-eyed, witty and irreverent, Laurie Penny is as
ruthless in her dissection of modern feminism and class politics as
she is in discussing her own experiences in journalism, activism
and underground culture. This is a book about poverty and
prejudice, online dating and eating disorders, riots in the streets
and lies on the television. The backlash is on against sexual
freedom for men and women and social justice - and feminism needs
to get braver. Penny speaks for a new feminism that takes no
prisoners, a feminism that is about justice and equality, but also
about freedom for all. It's about the freedom to be who we are, to
love who we choose, to invent new gender roles, and to speak out
fiercely against those who would deny us those rights. It is a book
that gives the silenced a voice - a voice that speaks of
unspeakable things.
'Captivating, emphatic and deeply inspiring, Sexual Revolution
lifted me greatly by envisioning the possibilities of our moment' V
(formerly Eve Ensler) 'Brilliant; vital; revolutionary' Kate Manne
_________________ This is a story about how modern masculinity is
killing the world, and how feminism can save it. It's a story about
sex and power and trauma and resistance and persistence. Sex and
gender are changing, and the world is changing with them. In this
time of crisis, we are also witnessing a productive transformation:
a revolutionary change in how we define gender, sex, consent and
whose bodies matter. This sexual revolution is a threat to the
social and economic order. It undermines the existing power
structures and weakens the authority of institutions from the waged
workplace to the nuclear family. No wonder the far right is
fighting back so hard. Told with Laurie Penny's trademark urgency
and candour, Sexual Revolution is a hand-grenade of a book: both a
manifesto for social change and a story of how feminism can save
us.
Modern culture is obsessed with controlling women's bodies. Our
societies are saturated with images of unreal, idealised female
beauty whilst real female bodies and the women who inhabit them are
alienated from their own personal and political potential. Under
modern capitalism, women are both consumers and consumed: Meat
Market offers strategies for resisting this gory cycle of
consumption, exposing how the trade in female flesh extends into
every part of women's political selfhood. Touching on sexuality,
prostitution, hunger, consumption, eating disorders, housework,
transsexualism and the global trade in the signs and signifiers of
femininity, Meat Market is a thin, bloody sliver of feminist
dialectic, dissecting women's bodies as the fleshy fulcrum of
capitalist cannibalism.
'Captivating, emphatic and deeply inspiring, Sexual Revolution
lifted me greatly by envisioning the possibilities of our moment' V
(formerly Eve Ensler) 'Brilliant; vital; revolutionary' Kate Manne
_________________ This is a story about how modern masculinity is
killing the world, and how feminism can save it. It's a story about
sex and power and trauma and resistance and persistence. Sex and
gender are changing, and the world is changing with them. In this
time of crisis, we are also witnessing a productive transformation:
a revolutionary change in how we define gender, sex, consent and
whose bodies matter. This sexual revolution is a threat to the
social and economic order. It undermines the existing power
structures and weakens the authority of institutions from the waged
workplace to the nuclear family. No wonder the far right is
fighting back so hard. Told with Laurie Penny's trademark urgency
and candour, Sexual Revolution is a hand-grenade of a book: both a
manifesto for social change and a story of how feminism can save
us.
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