The Case Against the Sexual Revolution

Louise Perry

• Publisher: Polity
• Year: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781509550005
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Gender Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

Ditching the stuffy hang-ups and benighted sexual traditionalism of the past is an unambiguously positive thing. The sexual revolution has liberated us to enjoy a heady mixture of erotic freedom and personal autonomy. Right?

Wrong, argues Louise Perry in her provocative new book. Although it would be neither possible nor desirable to turn the clock back to a world of pre-60s sexual mores, she argues that the amoral libertinism and callous disenchantment of liberal feminism and our contemporary hypersexualised culture represent more loss than gain. The main winners from a world of rough sex, hook-up culture and ubiquitous porn – where anything goes and only consent matters – are a tiny minority of high-status men, not the women forced to accommodate the excesses of male lust. While dispensing sage advice to the generations paying the price for these excesses, she makes a passionate case for a new sexual culture built around dignity, virtue and restraint.

This counter-cultural polemic from one of the most exciting young voices in contemporary feminism should be read by all men and women uneasy about the mindless orthodoxies of our ultra-liberal era.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Content
• Preface
• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Chapter 2 Cyclic Mechanical Hysteresis Behavior in One-Dimensional SiC/SiC Minicomposites at Room Temperature
• Chapter 3 High-Temperature Cyclic-Fatigue Mechanical Hysteresis Behavior in Two-Dimensional Plain-Woven Chemical Vapor Infiltration SiC/SiC Composites
• Chapter 4 High-Temperature Cyclic-Fatigue Mechanical Hysteresis Behavior in 2.5-Dimensional Woven SiC/SiC Composites
• Chapter 5 High-Temperature Static-Fatigue Mechanical Hysteresis Behavior in Two-Dimensional Plain-Woven Chemical Vapor Infiltration C/[Si-B-C] Composites
• Chapter 6 High-Temperature Dwell-Fatigue Mechanical Hysteresis Behavior in Cross-Ply SiC/MAS Composites
• Chapter 7 Mechanical Hysteresis Behavior in a Three-Dimensional Needle-Punched C/SiC Composite at Room Temperature
• Chapter 8 Mechanical Hysteresis Behavior in CMCs under Multiple-Stage Loading
• Index