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Desire -- Psychological aspects.
Literature -- Women authors.
American essays -- 21st century.
American essays -- Women authors.
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Desire -- Psychological aspects.
Literature -- Women authors.
American essays -- 21st century.
American essays -- Women authors.
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Wanting : women writing about desire / edited by
Margot
Kahn
and Kelly McMasters.
Catapult, 2023.
Call #:
814.608 W251
Subjects
Desire -- Psychological aspects.
Literature -- Women authors.
American essays -- 21st century.
American essays -- Women authors.
ISBN:
9781646220113 (pbk)
Description:
xiii, 334 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents:
When I imagine the life I want / Larissa Pham -- Appetite / Michelle Wildgen -- Sex in the suburbs / Angela Cardinale -- Pleasure archive: notes on polyamory, history, and desire / Keyanah B. Nurse, PhD -- An SUV named desire / Jennifer De Leon -- Being a dad means respecting the yard / Kristen Arnett -- See what you do to me / Tarashea Nesbit -- Desire in the city of subdued excitement / Rena Priest -- The good girl / Sonora Jha -- Bodies of water / Karen Russell -- Last supper / Torrey Peters -- How I got over / Amanda Petrusich -- There is a name for this / Joanna Rakoff -- My dick, your dick, our dick / Amy Gall -- The broken country / Molly McCully Brown -- Allergic / Tara Conklin -- Halls of air / Laura Joyce-Hubbard -- Made of clay / Abigail Thomas -- Splitting the world open / Lisa Taddeo -- The Thief / Jane Wong -- Addiction / Susan Shapiro -- Where it starts, where it ends / Terese Svoboda -- Control freak / Domenica Ruta -- On not getting what I wanted / Elisa Albert -- From woe to wonder / Aracelis Girmay -- Leaving the palace / Ann Tashi Slater -- Approximations / Nicole Hardy -- Teach me how to want to live / Teresa Wong -- Notes toward a history of desire / Merritt Tierce -- Coming to be / Sonia Maria David -- Song of songs / Melissa Febos -- Manifest / Camille T. Dungy -- Let's talk about sex, baby / Amber Flame.
Summary:
"What is desire? And what are its rules? In this daring collection, award-winning and emerging female writers share their innermost longings, in turn dismantling both personal and political constructs of what desire is or can be. In the opening essay, Larissa Pham unearths the ache beneath all her wants: time. Rena Priest's desire for a pair of five-hundred-dollar cowboy boots spurs a reckoning with her childhood on the rez and the fraught history of her hometown. Other pieces in the collection turn cultural tropes around dating, sex, and romance on their heads -- Angela Cardinale tries dating as a divorced mother of two in the California suburbs only to discover sweet solace in being alone; Keyanah B. Nurse finds power in polyamory; and when Joanna Rakoff spots a former lover at a bar, the heat between them unravels her family as she is pulled into his orbit -- an undoing, she decides, that's worth everything. Including pieces by Tara Conklin, Torrey Peters, Camille Dungy, Melissa Febos, Lisa Taddeo, and so many others, these candid and insightful essays tackle the complicated knot of women's desire. Featuring essays by Elisa Albert, Kristen Arnett, Molly McCully Brown, Angela Cardinale, Tara Conklin, Sonia Maria David, Jennifer De Leon, Camille T. Dungy, Melissa Febos, Amber Flame, Amy Gall, Aracelis Girmay, Sonora Jha, Nicole Hardy, Laura Joyce-Hubbard, TaraShea Nesbit, Keyanah B. Nurse, Torrey Peters, Amanda Petrusich, Larissa Pham, Rena Priest, Joanna Rakoff, Karen Russell, Domenica Ruta, Susan Shapiro, Terese Svoboda, Lisa Taddeo, Ann Tashi Slater, Abigail Thomas, Merritt Tierce, Michelle Wildgen, Jane Wong, and Teresa Wong"--Publisher.
Genre:
Essays.
Other authors:
Kahn
,
Margot
,
1978-
McMasters, Kelly.
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