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Sexed Up

How Society Sexualizes Us, and How We Can Fight Back
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In Sexed Up, pioneering activist, biologist, and trans woman Julia Serano explores the pervasive problem of sexualization that transcends sexism, affecting all people often unconsciously. She examines why men are viewed as sexual predators while women are sexual objects, and how LGBTQ+ individuals and people of colour face damaging stereotypes of hypersexuality. Serano argues that understanding and collectively confronting sexualization is key to liberation from sexual violence.
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This insightful and inclusive work is ideal for readers interested in feminism, LGBTQ+ issues, social justice, and the intersections of sexuality, race, and gender. It is especially recommended for those seeking a nuanced understanding of sexualisation beyond traditional feminist narratives.

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The author of the landmark manifesto Whipping Girl confronts the violent ways women, queer people, and people of color are sexualized-and offers a liberating path forward

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Feminists have long challenged the ways in which men tend to sexualise women. But pioneering activist, biologist, and trans woman Julia Serano argues that sexualisation is a far more pervasive problem, as it's something that we all do to other people, often without being aware of it.

Why do we perceive men as sexual predators and women as sexual objects? Why are LGBTQ+ people stereotyped as being sexually indiscriminate and deceptive? Why are people of colour still being hypersexualised? These stereotypes push minorities farther into the margins, and even the privileged are policed from transgressing, lest they also become targets.

Many view sexualisation as a mere component of sexism, racism, or queerphobia, but Serano argues that liberation from sexual violence comes through collectively confronting sexualisation itself.

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Julia Serano's Sexed Up is praised for its generous and accessible writing style that clearly explains complex ideas, making them click effortlessly (Sadhbh O'Sullivan, Refinery29). The book identifies a common problem and a shared foundation for solidarity and resistance (Noah Berlatsky, NBC News Think!). It compellingly connects how North American society assigns sexual deviance to marginalised groups as a form of control, uniting potential allies against sexual shame (S. Bear Bergman, xtra).

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781541674806

Publisher: Basic Books

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 02 June 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Basic Books

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 34.0mm

Width: 154.0mm

Height: 240.0mm

Weight: 510g

Pages: 320

About the Author

Julia Serano? is the author of four books, including?the?acclaimed modern classic?Whipping Girl.?Her writing has been published?in?the New York Times, ?the Guardian,?TIME,?Salon, Out, and Bitch.?Serano holds a?PhD?in biochemistry from Columbia University. She lives in Oakland,?California.?

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