Overview

"The United States may have a puritanical past, but the 21st century is wide open to diverse gender expression and romance. Good Sex is the manifesto-or Manisexto, if you will-for this cultural revolution. Same-sex marriage is legal, the #MeToo movement has exploded, colleges nationwide now teach consent-based sexual health, the media celebrates body positivity, and transgender visibility has become mainstream. Defining ""good sex"" as both ethical and pleasurable, Catherine M. Roach features such topics as equity, intersectionality, and shared pleasure while offering a lively discussion that is inclusively feminist, queer-friendly, and sex-positive without being divisive. An accessible guidebook, Good Sex provides hope that America's sexual, gender, and racial injustices can be addressed together. After all, this new gender and sexual revolution strengthens the pursuit of happiness and love. Welcome to the revolution!"

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Author:   Catherine M. Roach
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 25.40cm
ISBN:  

9780253064684

ISBN 10:   0253064686
Pages:   292
Publication Date:   04 October 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order  
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Table of Contents

"Preface Foreplay: Introducing the Manisexto: A Manifesto for the New Gender and Sexual Revolution Manisexto #1: Positive Sexuality: Sexuality Is a Normal, Healthy, and Pleasurable Aspect of Being Human 1. Sex: It's Complicated 2. What Do We Mean by ""Good"" Sex? 3. The Misunderstood Meaning of ""Sex-Positive"" 4. The Two-Sided Story of Sex in America 5. Romancing the Puritan Manisexto #2: Equity and Inclusion: Gender and Sexual Identities Are Diverse—and That's Okay 6. Why Diversity Matters across the Rainbow Spectrum, for Us All 7. Conversation, Consensus, and Cultural Competence 8. The Meanings of Queer 9. Sex Is Not Everything: The Surprising Lesson of Asexuality as Part of Diversity Manisexto #3: Body Positivity: All Bodies Are Good Bodies 10. The Naked Truth: Embracing Body Positivity and Diverse Ways to Embody Gender 11. Body Positivity Doesn't Mean ""Let Them Eat Cake!"": It's about Holistic Well-Being 12. It's Not about ""Looking Good"" but about Feeling Good—and That Includes Your Genitals Too 13. Sex Is Not Only for the Young and Beautiful Manisexto #4: Consent: Full Consent Is Fundamental to All Sexual Activity 14. The Role of Consent in Good Sex 15. What Consent Is (Good Communication) and Is Not (Green Eggs and Ham, or a Blanket) 16. Saying Yes, Saying No, Expanding the Gender Scripts 17. Boys Don't Belong in a Box Manisexto #5: Shared Pleasure: Good Sex Is Mutually Pleasurable and Respectful 18. Power With, Not Power Over 19. Who Gets to Feel Good?: Gender and Pleasure beyond the Shame-and-Blame Tightrope 20. Closing the Orgasm Gap: Porn and Hookups 21. Cliteracy and the Politics of Pleasure 22. Climax: Drawing the Line toward New Visions of Love Afterglow: Where We Go from Here: Toward Better Sex Education in America Acknowledgments and Note on Student Responses Source Citations and Resources for Further Reading Index"

Reviews

Despite the fact that fights over good sex versus bad sex are often fought in the name of protecting young people from danger, young people's own voices are rarely given a hearing. In refreshing contrast, in this volume Catherine Roach gives her college students a platform to speak on their own behalf about their worries and hopes for sexual pleasure. In so doing, she cuts through moral panics and political smokescreens to issue an accessible, lucid, and expansive call for new possibilities for living gender and sexuality. Good Sex is an uncommon blast of good sense. -- Ann Pellegrini, New York University, coauthor of You Can Tell Just By Looking and 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and People

Author Information

"Catherine M. Roach has 25 years of grant-funded research experience on gender, sexuality, and American popular culture. A two-time Fulbright awardee with a PhD from Harvard and publications in both fiction and nonfiction, she's been an invited visiting professor in Canada, Australia, and Europe. She is Professor of New College, an innovative liberal arts program at the University of Alabama, where she's won the school's top research and teaching awards and where she offers a popular cross-university course titled ""Sexuality & Society."" Originally from Ottawa, Canada, she is based in Tuscaloosa, Alabama."

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