Katherine Angel

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."

Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again

Contemporary feminism has re-embraced thinking about the big ideas - patriarchy, capitalism, care. But contemporary concern about men tends to relate to the men in our lives other than our fathers: our partners, friends, colleagues, bosses - many of whom are also, of course, fathers. Discontent with fathers has increasingly been privatised within feminist discourse. Daddy issues have been relegated to the realm of personal problems individuals take to therapists. In this bold, daring essay Katherine Angel asks: what is the father-daughter relationship today? How can it be understood politically? What political harms are done in the name of a father's love? Drawing on classic works by Virginia Woolf and Valerie Solonas along with more recent examples drawn from literature, film and TV, Angel examines how artists have conveyed the painful powers of the father in relation to the daughter.

Daddy Issues

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’

Unmastered is a new kind of book that allows us to think afresh about desire. Incisive, moving, and lyrical, it opens up a larger space for the exploration of feelings that can be difficult to express. Touching on experiences of desire and pleasure, as well as grief and pain, the book probes the porousness between masculine and feminine, thought and sensation, self and culture, power and pliancy. Katherine Angel reflects on the history of her own feelings, on her encounters and beliefs, and shows how our lives can be shaped by sexuality and feminism; by the words we use, and the stories we tell. The result is a book letting light into places that are often dark and constrained - a searching, erotic work that shifts in meaning and resonance even as it is read.

A Book on Desire, Most Difficult to Tell

Unmastered

Cynthia A. Graham

Shereen El-Feki

Alyce Mahon

John Bancroft

Christopher Turner

A candid exploration of the most publicly discussed of private acts--sex--and those who have devoted their lives to studying it. Looking at key sexologists throughout history including Sigmund Freud, Marie Stopes, and Alfred Kinsey, this book investigates how sex research has shaped our current attitudes toward sexual behavior and identity. From anthropological surveys and questionnaires to ancient sex toys and machines, The Institute of Sexology presents fascinating findings alongside a wide range of rare documents, artworks, photographs, and erotica from the past. Spanning several centuries, the book delves deeply into sexual practices and conventions from all over the world at different time periods. From raunchy ancient carvings to 1920s erotic postcards, The Institute of Sexology proves that kink has been around for longer than you think. The book's compilation of sexually progressive memorabilia opens a visually stimulating discussion on the topics of sexual freedom and fetishism. Through their documentation of courtship rituals from faraway lands and their historical government-sponsored sexual questionnaires, sexologists encourage us to take a critical look at our approach to sexual practices. Sexologists have hugely influenced our attitude toward this most basic of subjects, yet The Institute of Sexology reminds us that while contemporary reservations on sexuality are being loosened, there were times in the past when sex and sexual identity were explored much more openly. Preconceived ideas are thrown out the window in this richly illustrated book that suggests our understanding of sex is in constant evolution. The Institute of Sexology highlights the profound effect that the gathering and analysis of information can have in changing attitudes and lifting taboos.

The Institute of Sexology

Il sesso che verrà. Donne e desiderio nell'era del consenso

mujer y deseo en la era del consentimiento

El buen sexo mañana

Bella di papà. La figura del padre nella cultura contemporanea

Michael Neve

Edgar Jones

Aubrey Lewis, the Maudsley Hospital, and the Rockefeller Foundation in the 1930s

European Psychiatry on the Eve of War

Guter Sex braucht mehr als Konsens! Warum „Nein heißt Nein“ nicht reicht, und wie wir eine selbstbestimmte Sexualität nach #Metoo schaffen. „Damit müssen wir uns auseinandersetzen.“ Mithu Sanyal Begehren ist politisch, und Sexualität ist Macht. Einverständnis und sexuelle Gewalt schließen sich nicht aus. Wir wissen nicht immer, was wir wollen. Und Intimität ist komplexer, als „Nein heißt Nein“ glauben lässt. Katherine Angel nähert sich den heikelsten Themen der aktuellen Debatten über Sexualität, weibliches Begehren und Macht. Sie zeigt: Verletzlichkeit und unbewusste Wünsche und Ängste lassen sich auch durch Gesetze nicht aus der Welt schaffen. In klarer Sprache, mit Blick auf Philosophie, Geschichte und Sexualforschung lotet sie die Graubereiche der Intimität aus – verbunden mit einer Mahnung, die zugleich ein großes Versprechen ist: Erst wenn wir einander in unserer Verwundbarkeit wirklich ernst nehmen, wird Sex morgen wieder gut.

Frauen und Begehren

Morgen wird Sex wieder gut

"An examination of the paradox at the core of female sexuality argues that public-life requirements often directly contrast with intimate desires, drawing on the author's academic studies to explore the oppositional aspects of dominance versus submission, liberation verses dependence and masculinity versus femininity."

Dieses Buch ist ein intimes und erotisches Geständnis einer Frau und Geliebten. Es ist aber auch eine intensive Betrachtung widersprüchlicher und in unserer Gesellschaft fest verwurzelter Vorstellungen von Sexualität. Mit bemerkenswerter Offenheit reflektiert Angel die Geschichte ihrer sexuellen Begegnungen und Überzeugungen und zeigt, wie unser Leben durch unsere Sprache und unsere Erfahrungen geprägt wird. Lyrisch, erotisch, mutig und mit Bildern, die einem im Gedächtnis bleiben. Katherine Angel arbeitet an der Universität Warwick in Grossbritannien. Sie untersucht die Geschichte weiblicher Sexualstörungen und hat unter anderem Fachartikel für "The Independent" und "Prospect" geschrieben. Die Autorin lebt in London.

Katherine Angel

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