Audition - Don't Touch Me Audiobook
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Motherhood and the culture of rape and misogyny in America are not often explored in tandem. But there is a rich feminist discourse on which I draw in this book while I was writing it, a colleague told me they felt the subjects of assault and motherhood. We're like apples and oranges, disparate unrelated. What's the connection they said to which I replied, our bodies. That response was one I was able to muster only because of the feminist and queer thinkers who have come before me articulating how gender politics and economics shape our understanding of sexuality and family life, as well as our lived experiences of the body, the self and this thing we call motherhood. Those thinkers have buoyed, held and educated me. And I hope my analysis can provide a path toward thinking even further about these issues which are pressing and expansive in an era of increasing reproductive control.