A review by pronnnnch
Anticlimax: A Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Revolution by Sheila Jeffreys

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!