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Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape

In this groundbreaking new look at rape edited by writer and activist Jaclyn Freidman and Full Frontal Feminismand He's A Stud, She's A Slutauthor 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.

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Yes Means Yeswill 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. Yes Means Yesaims to have 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. With commentary on public sex education, pornography, mass media, Yes Means Yesis a powerful and revolutionary anthology.

Genre
LGBT
Setting
2000s
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 361 pages

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