Sex and Single Girls: Straight and Queer Women Write on Sexuality
Although they've grown up in a culture saturated with sex, women in their twenties and thirties have no sex book of their own. Sex and Single Girls fills this void with personal accounts of pleasure, fear, desire, risk, survival, heartbreak, and intimacy - everything that comes with exploring one's sexuality. Well-known writers and feminists treat topics ranging from online sex to abortion, from bisexuality to interracial relationships, creating a complex portrait of women's sexual...
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Although they've grown up in a culture saturated with sex, women in their twenties and thirties have no sex book of their own. Sex and Single Girls fills this void with personal accounts of pleasure, fear, desire, risk, survival, heartbreak, and intimacy - everything that comes with exploring one's sexuality. Well-known writers and feminists treat topics ranging from online sex to abortion, from bisexuality to interracial relationships, creating a complex portrait of women's sexual experiences, activities, and preferences. Contributors include Lisa Jervis, publisher of Bitch magazine; Siobhan Brooks, contributor to Whores and Other Feminists; Leora Tanenbaum, author of Slut: Growing Up with a Bad Reputation; Tatiana de la Tierra, editor of the Latina magazine Conmoción; Michelle Tea, author of The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America; and many others. Through their wise, humorous, and personally empowering writings, this collection explores women's sexual lives in all their passion and authenticity. Library Journal These 39 sexual memoirs show that life is as engrossing and wildly varied as fiction. Inspired by Helen Gurley Brown's Sex and the Single Girl, Damsky, production manager at Seal Press, "wanted to read personal stories about how other women in their twenties and thirties are having sex." And not one single girl, but "women with a range of backgrounds, both straight and queer, telling their own stories about sexual experiences, desires, and identity." Noelle Howey (editor, Out of the Ordinary) shares what it's like growing up with a father going through a sex change; Bitch magazine publisher Lisa Jervis explains how marriage has affected her sex life and self-image; and Leora Tanenbaum (Slut!) reveals the burden of being buxom. And so here are the sex lives of young women growing up in a modern world beset by a "perverse combination of sexual repression and fear alongside the overhyped sexualization of everything"--39 possibilities, 39 flavors, all very well written, with unexpected and striking epiphanies lying in wait for the reader. Explicit, occasionally sensual, but never pornographic, this collection is highly recommended for women's studies and contemporary culture collections in both public and academic libraries.--Martha Cornog, Philadelphia Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.
\ Library JournalThese 39 sexual memoirs show that life is as engrossing and wildly varied as fiction. Inspired by Helen Gurley Brown's Sex and the Single Girl, Damsky, production manager at Seal Press, "wanted to read personal stories about how other women in their twenties and thirties are having sex." And not one single girl, but "women with a range of backgrounds, both straight and queer, telling their own stories about sexual experiences, desires, and identity." Noelle Howey (editor, Out of the Ordinary) shares what it's like growing up with a father going through a sex change; Bitch magazine publisher Lisa Jervis explains how marriage has affected her sex life and self-image; and Leora Tanenbaum (Slut!) reveals the burden of being buxom. And so here are the sex lives of young women growing up in a modern world beset by a "perverse combination of sexual repression and fear alongside the overhyped sexualization of everything"--39 possibilities, 39 flavors, all very well written, with unexpected and striking epiphanies lying in wait for the reader. Explicit, occasionally sensual, but never pornographic, this collection is highly recommended for women's studies and contemporary culture collections in both public and academic libraries.--Martha Cornog, Philadelphia Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.\ \
