Book description
Unmastered
is a new kind of book that allows us to think afresh about sex and
desire. Incisive, moving, and lyrical, it opens up a larger space for
the exploration of feelings that can be difficult to express. Touching
on experiences of desire and pleasure, as well as grief and pain, the
book probes the porousness between masculine and feminine, thought and
sensation, self and culture, power and pliancy. Katherine Angel reflects
on the history of her own feelings, on her encounters and beliefs, and
shows how our lives can be shaped by sexuality and feminism; by the
words we use, and the stories we tell. The result is a book letting
light into places that are often dark and constrained - a searching,
erotic work that shifts in meaning and resonance even as it is read.
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.
