It's nice to know the guys can still get together and debate how women should respond to dominant and changing discourses on sex, gender and femininity. Thanks for that, boys, I was naturally at a loss to know where I should be going.
So I read the snippet from the review first, and thought perhaps I should buy this book, but then subsequent elaborations have suggested that it's another highly selective over-reaching patronising polemic on 'girls today' and frankly I've read more than enough of those.
I shouldn't wear makeup, apparently, or perfume. It's un-feminist - thanks for that, cause god knows a real feminist takes her guidelines from a group of men debating what women should do - and doesn't taste good. Somehow those imperatives are compatible, I know, but I'm still working it out myself.
"Aggressive sex" is also bad, apparently, though I've no fucking idea what that means. Sorry, perhaps I shouldn't swear either. Swearing probably goes with non-passive sex as a boys' thing.
Perhaps you should all agree on a set of rules. I teach a lot of gender studies students, I'm sure they'll be just thrilled to learn from it.
Catherine
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