Raechel Anne Jolie: The New Sex Wars, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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"Against sexual austerity on the left and the right, The New Sex Wars advances a politics that is as pro-pleasure as it is anti-harm. To imagine sexual freedom at the end of the world is a radical thing indeed. With their 'mercurial maps,' Jolie's criminal class sex workers, kinksters, trans kids, and survivors show us how." ---Heather Berg, author of Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism

"Raechel Anne Jolie is a partisan in the sex wars and she invites us to join the struggle! With this book, she makes an essential intervention into contemporary feminist thinking and action by showing how we have still not surpassed the heated debates that decide our paths towards liberation. She approaches these questions with nuance, yet gets us to think directly about the futures of feminism in a time when sex and gender are under particularly vicious attack. This accessible book offers a necessary entry point for newcomers to feminist thinking, while also helping those of us committed to feminism escape the common traps that can derail our commitments. And most importantly, Jolie takes a fearless anarchist perspective, something we need more than ever when so many feminists can't escape the endless theorizations that stop us from acting now."
---Shuli Branson, author of Practical Anarchism: A Guide for Daily Life

"Raechel Anne Jolie is a bright star in the contemporary firmament of sex-radicalism, care politics, and femme-inist 'lumpen theory.' With learning and panache, The New Sex Wars demonstrates concisely why sex work decriminalization, BDSM as an infrastructure of care, trans liberation, collective reproductive freedom, the positive supersession of the capitalist family, and abolitionist approaches to sexual harm are all indispensable to human flourishing. This well-considered political intervention tastes like whatever the opposite of a sex panic is---a mass risk-literate serenity around sexuality?---and I can only hope it seeps into the US water supply."
---Sophie Lewis, author of Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen & Girlbosses Against Liberation

"Despite all efforts to the contrary, feminism remains haunted by the question of sex. How and where and when to politicize it, how to regulate it, even how to enjoy it: feminists have fought pitched battles over all of these questions for decades, and they remain subsumed (and not so subsumed) in today's politics. Raechel Jolie takes us on a comprehensive and compassionate journey through these conflicts, making a deeply researched yet accessible argument for the importance of a radical politics of sex and sexuality today. Most importantly: she makes a case for the transformative possibilities of pleasure, not as a side benefit of liberation, but as a central tenet of a future free world."
---Sarah Jaffe, author of Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

"The New Sex Wars shows us what a wild tangle of claims are being made in the name of feminism right now, and demonstrates why intersectional feminist analysis and collective action for sexual liberation remain indispensable. Grounding the sex and gender panics of our times in a broader arc of techniques of control and resistance to them, Jolie offers us ways to imagine the rule-breaking and law-breaking required to respond to the dire times in which we find ourselves."
---Dean Spade, author of Love in a F*cked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together

"Jolie's The New Sex Wars is hot in the most rigorous ways. Full throated and engaged with feminisms and movements often overlooked---this text welcomes a more irreverent sisterhood of struggle."
---Brit "Red" Schulte, organizer and author

"In The New Sex Wars , Raechel Ann Jolie expertly weaves together history, theory, politics, and personal narrative to powerfully argue that not only does sex matter, but that it should be viewed as a key to the liberatory future that anarchists work toward. While she is realistic about the challenges of social change, she nevertheless demonstrates the value of expanding our imaginations to include a future without sexual violence and state control. Importantly, she also reminds us that sex workers---whose voices are often left out of feminist and leftist discourse---have much to teach the anarchist movement about community building and surviving outside the law."
---Jessie Sage, columnist, podcast host, and sex worker