The Pleasure Gap - by Katherine Rowland (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Millions of women in our country experience some mix of low desire, absent pleasure, tanking lust, and elusive orgasms. It's just stress, motherhood, anxiety, poor body image, or plain old boring monogamy though, right? Wife loses interest, husband is left cold for too long--these and similar narratives have been accepted as the norm. With The Pleasure Gap, Katherine Rowland aims to dismantle such claims once and for all. Women aren't less sexual than men, she asserts, for one, and they're certainly not predetermined to lose sexual drive as they age. And, in fascinating new accounts featured by Rowland, a growing number of women are taking steps to reignite their sexuality"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>American culture is more sexually liberal than ever. But compared to men, women's sexual pleasure has not grown: Up to 40 percent of American women experience the sexual malaise clinically known as low sexual desire. Between this low desire, muted pleasure, and experiencing sex in terms of labor rather than of lust, women by the millions are dissatisfied with their erotic lives. <p/>For too long, this deficit has been explained in terms of women's biology, stress, and age. In <i>The Pleasure Gap, </i> Katherine Rowland rejects the idea that women should settle for diminished pleasure; instead, she argues women should take inequality in the bedroom as seriously as we take it in the workplace and understand its causes and effects. Drawing on extensive research and interviews with more than one hundred women and dozens of sexual health professionals, Rowland shows that the pleasure gap is neither medical malady nor psychological condition but rather a result of our culture's troubled relationship with women's sexual expression. This provocative exploration of modern sexuality makes a case for closing the gap for good.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>A joy to read, and an important conversation about our right to pleasure: how we fake and perform, instead of value our actual sensations, cutting ourselves off from our own sexual enjoyment, which is our birthright. No one should deny themselves pleasure, nor the pleasure of this book, and its inevitable aftermath in their lives.--<i><b>Julie Holland, author of Moody Bitches: The Truth About the Drugs You're Taking, the Sleep You're Missing, the Sex You're Not Having, and What's Really Making You Crazy</b></i><br><br>If I could force everyone to read this book, I would. All of us, especially men who are confused about their partners' sexual response, need it, and need it now.--<i><b>Eric Berkowitz, author of Sex and Punishment: Four Hundred Years of Judging Desire </b></i><br><br>In <i>The Pleasure Gap</i>, Katharine Rowland takes on a feminist issue that has not received the attention it deserves: the inequality between women and men in the fraught and intimate area of sexual pleasure. Well-written and deeply researched, this book illuminates a topic that has profound implications for women's personal happiness and well-being.--<i><b>Elaine Tyler May, author of America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation</b></i><br><br>In <i>The Pleasure Gap</i>, Katherine Rowland takes a candid and unflinching look at the factors that drive sexual desire deficits for cis, heterosexual women. Sweeping away the cobwebs of dusty explanations for women's 'loss of sexual drive.' ... She closes the deal with the reader by offering frank insights into ways to close the gap, with a welcome focus on how we can mute the voices of our society and listen to our own bodies and minds.--<i><b>Emily Willingham, coauthor of The Informed Parent: A Science-Based Resource for Your Child's First Four Years</b></i><br><br>Tasteful and open-minded . . . Rowland skillfully synthesizes many different ideas and approaches, and encourages women to embrace a broader understanding of their own sexual desire as an ongoing process of self-discovery and self-assertion.--<b>Publishers Weekly</b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Katherine Rowland </b>was previously the publisher and executive director of Guernica. She holds a masters in Sociomedical Sciences from Columbia University, where she was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research fellow in medical anthropology. She has contributed to <i>Nature</i>, the <i>Financial Times</i>, <i>Green Futures</i>, the <i>Guardian</i>, the <i>Independent</i>, <i>Aeon</i>, <i>Psychology Today</i>, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.
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