RT Book
T1 Slut-shaming, whorephobia, and the unfinished sexual revolution
A1 Ralston, Meredith L. 1962-
LA English
PP Montreal Kingston London Chicago
PB McGill-Queen's University Press
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1815915056
AB "The sexual revolution is unfinished. A sexual double standard between men and women still exists, and society continues to punish bad girls and reward good ones. Until we eliminate good-girl privilege and bad-girl stigma, women will not be fully free to embrace their sexuality. In Slut-Shaming, Whorephobia, and the Unfinished Sexual Revolution, Meredith Ralston looks at the common denominators between the #MeToo movement, the myths of rape culture, and the pleasure gap between men and women to reveal the ways that sexually liberated women threaten the patriarchy. Weaving in history, pop culture, philosophy, interviews with sex workers, and personal anecdotes, Ralston shows how women cannot achieve sexual equality until the sexual double standard and good girl/bad girl binary are eliminated and women viewed by society as "whores" are destigmatized. Illustrating how women's sexuality is policed by both men and women, she argues that women must be allowed the same personal autonomy as men: the freedom to make sexual decisions for themselves, to obtain orgasm equality, and to insist on their own sexual pleasure. Dispelling the myth that all sex workers are victims and all clients are violent, Slut-Shaming, Whorephobia, and the Unfinished Sexual Revolution calls out Western society's hypocrisy about sex and shows how stigma and the marginalization of sex workers harms all women."--
NO Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-255) and index
CN HQ29
SN 978-0-2280-0665-7
SN 0-2280-0665-1
K1 Women : Sexual behavior
K1 Stigma (Social psychology)
K1 sex workers
K1 Prostitution
K1 Rape culture
K1 Sex
K1 Stereotyping
K1 Sexual Behavior
K1 Femmes - Sexualité
K1 Stigmatisation (Psychologie sociale)
K1 Travailleurs du sexe
K1 Culture du viol
K1 Sexualité
K1 Sexuality
K1 Women - Sexual behavior
K1 Sexismus : Patriarchat : Geschlechterrolle : Sexualität : MeToo : Prostituierte : Doppelte Moral