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Unmastered: A Book on Desire, Most Difficult to Tell
Katherine Angel
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Description for Unmastered: A Book on Desire, Most Difficult to Tell
Paperback. Exploring desire and pleasure, grief and pain, this book underlines the importance and difficulties of speaking desire as a woman. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: JMQ; JMU; VFVG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 272.
Unmastered is groundbreaking, incisive and moving. Exploring desire and pleasure, grief and pain, it underlines the importance and difficulties of speaking desire as a woman. How do we explore sexuality on our own terms, and find language for our desires, when desire and language are always social? Applying an unflinching gaze to her own life, Katherine Angel has created, in prose both stark and lyrical, a searching and erotic work shifting in meaning and resonance even as it is read.
Unmastered is groundbreaking, incisive and moving. Exploring desire and pleasure, grief and pain, it underlines the importance and difficulties of speaking desire as a woman. How do we explore sexuality on our own terms, and find language for our desires, when desire and language are always social? Applying an unflinching gaze to her own life, Katherine Angel has created, in prose both stark and lyrical, a searching and erotic work shifting in meaning and resonance even as it is read.
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780718194772
SKU
V9780718194772
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99-99
About Katherine Angel
Katherine Angel is a writer and academic. A Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for the History of Medicine at Warwick University, her current research explores the history of female sexual problems in the UK and US, from the 1960s to the present. She has written on sexuality, pornography, and the relationship between culture and desire, for the Independent and Prospect. ... Read more
Reviews for Unmastered: A Book on Desire, Most Difficult to Tell
A moving and memorable read
Huffington Post Books of 2013
I think the highest compliment you can pay any book is that it is unafraid. Angel's fiercely intelligent and moving memoir of sexuality and desire is a challenging, vital work
Sam Byers, Best Books of 2012
Book Keeping
Unmastered is written with an honesty so ... Read more
Huffington Post Books of 2013
I think the highest compliment you can pay any book is that it is unafraid. Angel's fiercely intelligent and moving memoir of sexuality and desire is a challenging, vital work
Sam Byers, Best Books of 2012
Book Keeping
Unmastered is written with an honesty so ... Read more