Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power
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In this groundbreaking new look at rape edited by writer and activist Jaclyn Freidman and Full Frontal Feminism author Jessica Valenti, the way we view rape in our culture is finally dismantled and replaced with a genuine understanding and respect for female sexual pleasure.
Feminist, political, and activist writers alike will present their ideas for a paradigm shift from the “No Means No” model—an approach that while necessary for where we were in 1974, needs an overhaul today.
Yes Means Yes will bring to the table a dazzling variety of perspectives and experiences focused on the theory that educating all people to value female sexuality and pleasure leads to viewing women differently, and ending rape.
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Yes Means Yes aims to have radical and far-reaching effects. Teaching men to treat women as collaborators and not conquests, encouraging men and women that women can enjoy sex instead of being shamed for it, as well as ultimately, that our children can inherit a world where rape is rare and swiftly punished.
With commentary on public sex education, pornography, mass media, Yes Means Yes is a powerful and revolutionary anthology.
256 Pages
Susan Holbrook’s poetry books are the Trillium-nominated Joy Is So Exhausting(Coach House, 2009), Good Egg Bad Seed(Nomados, 2004) and misled(Red Deer, 1999), which was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the Stephan G. Stephansson Award. She lives in Leamington, Ontario, and teaches North American literatures and Creative Writing at the University of Windsor. She is the author of a poetrytextbook, Reading (and Writing About), Poetry(Broadview Press, 2015). Additionally, co-editor with Thomas Dilworth, of The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson: Composition as Conversation(Oxford, 2010).
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I loveexperience of ad reading this anthology. I feel like this should be required reading for anyone who is sexually active with females in our current society. As a heterosexual, cis, male, I found the insight into the experience of all types, oriented, and practicing females to be both enlightening and informative. It truly gives a path to finding a way to support and bring into being a new way of approaching sexuality that prioritizes pleasure, consent and communication.