Sex Object : A Memoir

No longer maligned as a fascistic movement of man-haters or declared dead on national magazine covers, feminism is now the zeitgeist. Beyonc_ calls herself a feminist in forty foot lights; democratic candidate Hillary Clinton stumps for womenÆs rights on the 2016 campaign trail; and a vibrant conversation is happening in real time across social media. ôGutsy young third wave feministö (New York Times) and Guardian US columnist Jessica Valenti has been leading the national conversation for over a decade and is widely credited with sparking the online wave of the womenÆs movement. In Sex Object, Valenti focuses on funny, painful, embarrassing, and sometimes illegal moments from her own life that illuminate what itÆs like to be a woman today. Structured in three acts to follow the arc of what a womanÆs life is supposed to be focused onùBodies, Boys, BabiesùSex Object explores drugs, sex, harassment, assault, bad boyfriends, too-nice boyfriends, abortions, birth, class anxiety, impostor syndrome, work, death threats, resistance, and family. Feminism is once again ôhaving a moment and Sex Object shockingly illuminates the contemporary female experienceùand the woman who is helping to shape it.