Sex Object: A Memoir

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Once maligned as a fascistic movement of hairy, man-hating Birkenstock wearers, feminism has become the zeitgeist. Beyonc voices her support; Patricia Arquette sparks a heated national conversation on wage equality after accepting an Oscar; democratic candidate Hillary Clinton stumps for womens rights on the 2016 campaign trail; and a vibrant conversation is happening in real time across social media. Gutsy young third wave feminist (New York Times) and Guardian US columnist Jessica Valenti has been leading the national conversation for over a decade and is widely credited with sparking the online wave of the womens movement.

In Sex Object, Valenti focuses on funny, painful, embarrassing, and sometimes illegal moments from her own life that illuminate what its like to be a woman today. Structured in three acts to follow the arc of what a womans life is supposed to be focused onBodies, Boys, BabiesSex Object explores drugs, sex, harassment, assault, bad boyfriends, too-nice boyfriends, abortions, birth, class anxiety, impostor syndrome, work, death threats, resistance, and family. Feminism is once again having a moment. Like Erica Jongs groundbreaking Fear of Flying in the 1970s, Sex Object shockingly illuminates the contemporary female experienceand the woman who is helping to shape it.

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-I began reading Jessica Valenti's Sex Object before the most recent tape (as of this writing) leaked of a presidential candidate bragging about sexually assaulting women for fun, but there could hardly be a better validation for the subject.---AV Club