Exploring desire and pleasure, grief and pain, this book underlines the importance and difficulties of speaking desire as a woman.
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.
Provocative and profoundly personal . . . it's hard to overestimate the riskiness of these passages, their courage and their exquisite sensuality . . .
Unmastered is a giddily joyful book . . . days after reading its images linger in the mind . . . an elegant and uplifting journey Olivia Laing Observer
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.
Über den Autor
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.
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The author reflects on the history of her own feelings, encounters and beliefs, and how our lives can be shaped by sexuality and feminism, the words we use and the stories we tell. For readers of Roland Barthes and Germaine Greer.
