Unscrewed : women, sex, power, and how to stop letting the system screw us all / Jaclyn Friedman

Includes index.

Introduction: We the Fauxpowered -- 1 This Is Not My Beautiful House -- 2 What Women Want -- 3 Fauxpowerment Will Be Televised -- 4 Money Makes The Sex Go Round -- 5 The Separation of Church and Sex -- 6 Saving Ourselves from Rescue -- 7 Only Human -- 8 How to Build a Better Man -- 9 Students of Desire -- 10 The Professionals -- 11 Our Internet, Ourselves -- Epilogue: How to Join the Resistance -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.

"What bestselling authors like Sheryl Sandberg and Brigid Schulte have done for women's work lives, Jaclyn Friedman does here for women's sexuality: spark a culture-wide rethink about what's accepted as normal, urging us all to try for something better. Not only that: she does it with warmth, irreverence, and candor reminiscent of Roxane Gay in Bad Feminist, and the fiery conviction of her own co-edited anthology Yes Means Yes! In Unscrewed, Friedman reveals that the anxiety and fear women in our country feel around issues of their sexuality are not, in fact, their fault, but instead are side effects of our toxic culture. Dubbed the "era of fauxpowerment," that culture gives women the illusion of sexual power, with no actual power to support it. Exploring where media, religion, politics, and education overlap with feminist issues, Unscrewed breaks down the causes and signs of fauxpowerment, then gives readers tools to take it on themselves."