leelulah's review against another edition
2.0
Jeffreys was my introduction to radical feminism. Turns out that she can become a bit repetitive. Most of the works I liked had that reference to early sexologists, the failures and lies of Freudian psychology, the differences between gay and lesbian culture, the castrating ability of transgenderism, etc. The problem is that her solution to this is 'become one of us'. This shows the obliviousness present in the radical feminists for whom every woman aiming to marry and have a family while repudiating any sort of absuive scenary and behavior, is a "handmaid" (in Atwood's terms).
This didn't have much new bits of info for me. Guess I'll just stick to her anti queer theory work. The only good thing this book made me realize is that psychologists have been stepping outside their area forever, even aiming to describe anatomy in tremendously wrong ways.
This didn't have much new bits of info for me. Guess I'll just stick to her anti queer theory work. The only good thing this book made me realize is that psychologists have been stepping outside their area forever, even aiming to describe anatomy in tremendously wrong ways.
pronnnnch's review against another edition
challenging
informative
slow-paced
5.0
Anticlimax is a great book to read if you want to understand 1. what shaped our cultural understanding of sex, 2. the factors that played into the dawn of a sexual revolution, 3. how the revolution actually wasn't as liberating for women as we thought, 4. What sex could mean for the future. I thoroughly enjoyed this book though it was very dense. I feel like its something I can come back to again and again as a reference. When they said it was a feminist classic, I very much agree. Its well rounded and precise with its topic, though something I think is lacking is the analysis of race in the sexual revolution - especially when it comes to the fetishizing of people of color. Overall I think this is a book that I would put in my favorites for the year!
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