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Nona Willis Aronowitz
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October 2009
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Out of the Vinyl Deeps: On Rock Music
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2011
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Bad Sex: Truth, Pleasure, and an Unfinished Revolution
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The Essential Ellen Willis
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Girldrive: Criss-Crossing America, Redefining Feminism
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2009
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Growing Up Powerful Journal: A Confidence Boosting, Totally Inspiring, Joyful Journal
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Bad Sex: Truth, Pleasure, and an Unfinished Revolution:
"This was fantastic! Partly hyper-personal confessional memoir, partly deeply researched stocktaking of more than a century of feminist writing on women’s sexuality, Nona Willis Aronowitz’s book details her multi-year struggle to end her sexually frus"
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"I found the book relatable and informative. It tools hundreds of years of feminist theory and wove it into a deeply personal yet relatable modern day romance with romance. As prosex feminist this book hit home for me and inspired me to read more femi"
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"I loved reading this engaging, informative, and very relatable book. It's so great and I think everyone should read it."
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"Thoroughly enjoying the journey of reading through this deeply personal and well researched chronicle about the vulnerable questions and ideas around sex and our desires that we must all wrestle with. The writing is witty, punchy and gets to the hear"
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“A couple of years in, when I requested an open relationship, I came up with all kinds of sexpert-approved reasons: because it creates and maintains healthy tension, because monogamy isn’t sustainable, because to hell with patriarchy and the marriage industrial complex. But I knew deep, deep, deep down that the main reason I wanted to fuck other people was because I no longer wanted to fuck him.”
― Bad Sex: Truth, Pleasure, and an Unfinished Revolution
― Bad Sex: Truth, Pleasure, and an Unfinished Revolution
“Patriarchy is unique in that heterosexual women are oppressed by the very people they want to love, live with, and have sex with.”
― Bad Sex: Truth, Pleasure, and an Unfinished Revolution
― Bad Sex: Truth, Pleasure, and an Unfinished Revolution
“We have not, for instance, succeeded in avoiding dudes who don’t notice we’re having a bad time, or notice but don’t seem to care, or pretend to care but actually don’t. We continue to deal with guys who cross our boundaries in some way, transforming bad sex (or even good sex) into something shitty and murky and scary.”
― Bad Sex: Truth, Pleasure, and an Unfinished Revolution
― Bad Sex: Truth, Pleasure, and an Unfinished Revolution
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