Read Yes Means Yes! Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape Audible Audio Edition Jaclyn Friedman Jessica Valenti Kymberly Dakin Corey Gagne Christine Marshall Casey Turner Jennywren Walker Janay Woodruff Hachette Audio Books
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This groundbreaking feminist classic dismantles the way we view rape in our culture and replaces it with a genuine understanding and respect for female sexual pleasure.
In the original edition, feminist, political, and activist writers alike presented their ideas for a paradigm shift from the "No Means No" model - and the result was the groundbreaking shift to today's affirmative consent model ("Yes Means Yes", as coined by this work).Â
With a timely new introduction, refreshed cover, and the timeless contributions of authors from Kate Harding to Jill Filipovic, Yes Means Yes brings 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. Yes Means Yes has radical and far-reaching effects from 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, and ultimately, that our children can inherit a world where rape is rare and swiftly punished.
Read Yes Means Yes! Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape Audible Audio Edition Jaclyn Friedman Jessica Valenti Kymberly Dakin Corey Gagne Christine Marshall Casey Turner Jennywren Walker Janay Woodruff Hachette Audio Books
"A great educational and interesting read from many great authors. A must read for college students and anyone with an interest in feminism from many different perspectives. Very entertaining life stories as well. Highly recommended."
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Yes Means Yes! Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape Audible Audio Edition Jaclyn Friedman Jessica Valenti Kymberly Dakin Corey Gagne Christine Marshall Casey Turner Jennywren Walker Janay Woodruff Hachette Audio Books Reviews :
Yes Means Yes! Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape Audible Audio Edition Jaclyn Friedman Jessica Valenti Kymberly Dakin Corey Gagne Christine Marshall Casey Turner Jennywren Walker Janay Woodruff Hachette Audio Books Reviews
- A great educational and interesting read from many great authors. A must read for college students and anyone with an interest in feminism from many different perspectives. Very entertaining life stories as well. Highly recommended.
- Repeats a lot of the same themes. But the format is interesting and the resources are valuable. If you've been reading feminist blogs lately, you've already read this book in quote form.
- This book is such a must have for any feminist. It is always my go-to source for information about sexual assault prevention, and I appreciated the fact that it discusses other topics like domestic violence, emotional abuse, and even STIs resulting from assault. A modern feminist classic. I'm just mad at myself I didn't order it and read it sooner.
- The essays I found most engaging were those that examined how rape culture was derived using historical examples, that examined how it persists using present examples, and that pointed to intersections I hadn't thought of (or heard of) before, such as "When Pregnancy Is Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Be Pregnant" by Tiloma Jayasinghe in which Jayasinghe drills down into a specific issue to demonstrate just one of the many ways in which our culture tries to control women's bodies. Another essay examined BDSM, female sexual submissives and how the elements of BDSM are misappropriated by mainstream pornography "The Fantasy of Acceptable 'Non-Consent' Why the Female Sexual Submissive Scares Us (and Why She Shouldn't)" by Stacey May Fowles.
Some reviewers found other essays more engaging than I did, which I believe is the strength of this book that it has something to say to everyone who reads it, even if that "something" is different for every reader. - great book, makes you look at things we normally avoid talking about, from a new perspective and i love that! needed this for a class text book and enjoyed reading it!
- Every person should read this. Great and varied ideas are expressed and conveyed by several influential feminists.
- This book has lead to my own feminist awakening. It was like a slap in the face of my soul.
I see sexism everywhere now, its crazy how accepting I was of it before
reading this book and a few other such as Caitlin Moran's How to be a Woman and Jessica Valenti's The Purity Myth.
EVERY WOMAN NEEDS TO READ THIS. - "Yes Means Yes" is quite a radical take on the idea of sexual consent - getting past the valuable, but very limited, concept of "No Means No" to a broader idea that sex should always involve the enthusiastic consent of all the parties involved.
It's shocking that this is a radical idea - but, in a world where sexuality is far too often conceived of as "men as relentless pursuers and women as desireless gatekeepers" it is quite remarkable to see a vision of women as equal partners and independent actors in the context of their own sexuality.
The book itself is composed of 28 essays by 30 contributors - two by coeditors Jessica Valenti and Jacklyn Friedman, with the other 26 by a variety of authors from all walks of life (the most prominent among the contributors being comedian Margaret Cho, who wrote the book's foreword).
Each author wrote in his/her own voice, with extremely light, almost invisible, editing by Valenti and Freedman, which gave an interesting collaborative flavor to the book (while also making it somewhat hit or miss).
By far, the strongest contributions were "What it feels like when it finally comes surviving incest in real life" by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, "When sexual autonomy isn't enough sexual violence against immigrant women in the United States" by Miriam Zoila Perez, "Trial by media Black female lasciviousness and the question of consent" by Samhita Mukhopadhyay, "Why nice guys finish last" by Julia Serrano and "Who're you calling a whore? a conversation with three sex workers on sexuality, empowerment and The Industry" by Susan Lopez, Mariko Passion and Saundra.
The rest of the essays - while not rising to the level of those five contributions, were good pieces that got their points across.
The book had only one weak and poorly written essay "Towards a performance model of sex" by Thomas Macaulay Millar, by far the weakest and most poorly written and thought out essay in an otherwise excellent book.
On the whole, this is an outstanding work and I would recommend this book to anybody - especially to women - and it gives a new and unique perspective on sexuality.
