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A review by jill_reads
Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent by Katherine Angel
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
<i>"Relationality and responsivity characterize all human interactions whether we admit it or not ... how we understand sex is inextricable from how we understand what it is to be a person - we cannot deny that we are flexible, social creatures, constantly ingesting, incorporating, and reformulating what we take in."</i>
I can already tell this is a book I am going to want to come back to repeatedly and will directly inform my discussions with friends, my work, my sense of self in the world, and my navigation of relational dynamics. This book slowly built up momentum, with so many different quotes and ideas and references, but all of this worked together to create a really comprehensive look at sex that seems more critical, more aware, and more grounded than any I have ever read. It feels very exciting to be reading something that genuinely feels progressive, in that it builds on the ideas from the past both long ago and very recently and genuinely seems to take the ideas to new places, and care about a push into a radical and emancipatory look at sex, gender, power, excitement, curiosity, openness and vulnerability. It also felt like a book that leaves the reader to continue progressing on their own and not to stay static in its revelations and insights, but to keep exploring. As Angel says, <i>"we don't simply work out what we want and then act on that knowledge, working out what we want is a life's work and it has to be done over and over and over... the joy may lie in it never being done."</i> I love, love, loved it. <b>Should be essential reading for anyone, but especially anyone interested in the study of sex and gender and feminism.</b>
I can already tell this is a book I am going to want to come back to repeatedly and will directly inform my discussions with friends, my work, my sense of self in the world, and my navigation of relational dynamics. This book slowly built up momentum, with so many different quotes and ideas and references, but all of this worked together to create a really comprehensive look at sex that seems more critical, more aware, and more grounded than any I have ever read. It feels very exciting to be reading something that genuinely feels progressive, in that it builds on the ideas from the past both long ago and very recently and genuinely seems to take the ideas to new places, and care about a push into a radical and emancipatory look at sex, gender, power, excitement, curiosity, openness and vulnerability. It also felt like a book that leaves the reader to continue progressing on their own and not to stay static in its revelations and insights, but to keep exploring. As Angel says, <i>"we don't simply work out what we want and then act on that knowledge, working out what we want is a life's work and it has to be done over and over and over... the joy may lie in it never being done."</i> I love, love, loved it. <b>Should be essential reading for anyone, but especially anyone interested in the study of sex and gender and feminism.</b>