Overview

... a challenging and provocative book, written by two extraordinary women. Refracting lived personal experience and contemporary popular attitudes through the lens of theory and the 'gender wars', they call for a new, more open and inclusive attitude not only to desire and human sexuality but also to the whole range of human relationships. In speaking thus of the 'mutual orgasm' the authors contrast a 'clitorocentric manifesto' with the continuing dominance of an exploitative phallocentric and alienating culture.

Table of Contents

Contents

acknowledgements

prologue

chapter one:

sex! how would you like it: shaken, stirred or political?

chapter two:

sugar and spice and all things bitchy

chapter three:

slugs and snails and backlash tales

chapter four:

desire as you like it: punishment or privilege

chapter five:

masochism, machismo and madness: consuming passions

chapter six:

redressing privilege: unveiling the wolf

chapter seven:

a clitorocentric manifesto

epilogue

endnotes

references