A genre-busting nonfiction account that reads like poetry, revels in ambiguity, and intentionally defies definition, the book explores the slippery emotions of sex in fiery, collage-like scenes intended to reconcile the contradictory 'metaphors we love by.' * O Magazine * Ghostly and poetic. and heady reflections from feminist thinkers like Susan Sontag and Virginia Woolf. Parul Sehgal * Slate * Offers an arresting mix of diaristic experiences with her lover. Olivia Laing * The Guardian * Unmastered is a smart rejoinder to the idea that pleasure has nothing to teach us. The real joy lies in the artfulness with which she uses these intimate episodes as a way of unwrapping the larger issue of what it means to be a woman, both object and subject of desire. Only then will we fulfil Michel Foucault's teasing promise, in 1976, that 'tomorrow sex will be good again' Why, she asks, should they be expected to know their desires? And how do we take sexual violence seriously, when not knowing what we want is key to both eroticism and personhood? In today's crucial moment of renewed attention to violence and power, Angel urges that we remake our thinking about sex, pleasure, and autonomy without any illusions about perfect self-knowledge.
How can women, in this environment, possibly know what they want? And why do we expect them to? In this elegant, searching book-spanning science and popular culture pornography and literature debates on Me-Too, consent and feminism-Katherine Angel challenges our assumptions about women's desire. And men are keen to insist that they know what women-and their bodies-want.
Yet sex researchers suggest that women's desire is often slow to emerge. In the name of consent and empowerment, they must proclaim their desires clearly and confidently.
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