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BAD SEX
Truth, Pleasure, and an Unfinished Revolution
From Teen Vogue sex and love columnist Nona Willis Aronowitz, a blend of memoir, social history, and cultural criticism that explores the new "problem that has no name" when it comes to female desire, seeking answers from the author's life and family history as well as from revolutionaries of the past.
The daughter of Ellen Willis (of Second Wave Feminist fame), Nona grew up not only believing the feminist revolution was thriving, but that she was a result: She was sexually liberated, wrote her college thesis on 1970s porn, and had genuinely good sex from the time she was a teen. But then at twenty-four, she entered into an ironic and unplanned marriage that become a surprisingly seductive trap into conventional life. But eight years later that partnership was starting to show signs of wear and eventually culminated in divorce. It was in that moment of personal sea change and political tumult that Nona turned to her late mother's writing (and other revolutionaries of the past) for guidance, all while navigating the modern dating world. In a time when sex has never been more accepted and feminism has never been more mainstream, what does it mean to be sexually liberated?
For readers of Rebecca Traister and Rebecca Solnit, Bad Sex is a brave, bold, and vulnerable exploration of the enduring barriers of sexual freedom, which lays bare the triumphs and flaws of contemporary feminism and also helps shine a light on universal questions of desire.
Nona Aronowitz is the sex and love columnist for Teen Vogue and the author (along with Emma Bee Bernstein) of Girldrive: Criss-crossing America, Redefining Feminism (Seal Press, 2009). Her work has been published in the New York Times, The Cut, Elle, VICE, Washington Post, Playboy, and The Atlantic. She is also the editor of an award- winning anthology of Ellen Willis's rock criticism, called Out of the Vinyl Deeps (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2011), as well as a comprehensive collection of her work, The Essential Ellen Willis (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2014), which won the National Book Critics Circle award for Criticism.
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Published 2022-08-09 by Plume |