Sexual Revolution: Modern Fascism and the Feminist Fightback

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Hardcover
2019
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An urgent, hopeful and unapologetically radical new book by award-winning writer Laurie Penny about one of the biggest issues of our time: sexual consent, rape culture and the power of desire Based on Penny's celebrated, Ellie-nominated series at Longreads, Consent is a hand grenade of a book that demands a shake-up in gender and sexual relations. From mental health to abortion, issues of race to the rise of the far right, existing social and political paradigms breed sexual inequality and injustice. As recent global movements demonstrate, it is time for these paradigms to be upended. Nuanced, accessible and lyrical, Penny draws on years of journalistic and academic research to argue that a new attitude to consent can change not only sexual politics, but democracy itself.

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An urgent, hopeful and unapologetically radical new book by award-winning writer Laurie Penny about one of the biggest issues of our time: sexual consent, rape culture and the power of desire Based on Penny's celebrated, Ellie-nominated series at Longreads, Consent is a hand grenade of a book that demands a shake-up in gender and sexual relations. From mental health to abortion, issues of race to the rise of the far right, existing social and political paradigms breed sexual inequality and injustice. As recent global movements demonstrate, it is time for these paradigms to be upended. Nuanced, accessible and lyrical, Penny draws on years of journalistic and academic research to argue that a new attitude to consent can change not only sexual politics, but democracy itself.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 07 Mar 2019
ISBN 10: 1526602199
ISBN 13: 9781526602190
Book Overview: An urgent, hopeful and unapologetically radical new book by award-winning writer Laurie Penny about one of the biggest issues of our time: sexual consent, rape culture and the power of desire

Media Reviews

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
A writer and polemicist, a bad-ass, contrary, angry, bisexual troublemaker who is never happier than when she's upsetting someone, or preferably everyone ... We need her * The Times *
One of the most accomplished and acerbic of the new, young journalists emerging from the protest movements of the 2010s, [Penny] takes you to the front trench of the gender war and keeps you there longer than anyone should really stay -- Praise for 'Bitch Doctrine', Paul Mason * Guardian *

Author Bio

Laurie Penny is a writer and journalist. She writes for Vice, the Guardian and many other publications, and is a columnist and Contributing Editor at the New Statesman magazine. Her previous books are Unspeakable Things and Bitch Doctrine, which was longlisted for the Orwell Prize. She lives in Brighton. laurie-penny.com / @PennyRed