Unscrewed : women, sex, power, and how to stop letting the system screw us all

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Unscrewed : women, sex, power, and how to stop letting the system screw us all

Title remainder

women, sex, power, and how to stop letting the system screw us all

Statement of responsibility

Jaclyn Friedman

Creator

• trueFriedman, Jaclyn

Author

• trueFriedman, Jaclyn

Subject

• trueFeminism
• Feminism -- United States
• trueGender role
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
• Sex role
• Sex role -- United States
• trueSexism
• Feminism
• Women -- Sexual behavior -- United States
• trueWomen -- Sexuality
• trueWomen's studies
• Sexism
• Sexism -- United States
• trueSexuality
• United States
• trueWomen
• Women -- Sexual behavior

Language

eng

Summary

• "What bestselling authors like Sheryl Sandberg and Brigid Schulte have done for women's work lives, Jaclyn Friedman does here for women's sexuality: spark a culture-wide rethink about what's accepted as normal, urging us all to try for something better. Not only that: she does it with warmth, irreverence, and candor reminiscent of Roxane Gay in Bad Feminist, and the fiery conviction of her own co-edited anthology Yes Means Yes! In Unscrewed, Friedman reveals that the anxiety and fear women in our country feel around issues of their sexuality are not, in fact, their fault, but instead are side effects of our toxic culture. Dubbed the "era of fauxpowerment," that culture gives women the illusion of sexual power, with no actual power to support it. Exploring where media, religion, politics, and education overlap with feminist issues, Unscrewed breaks down the causes and signs of fauxpowerment, then gives readers tools to take it on themselves"--
• "From a leading feminist journalist, a searing investigation into the state of sexual power in America, and how to make real progress toward equality"--

Tone

• trueImpassioned
• trueThought-provoking

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• Provided by publisher
• Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

305.420973

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography