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Yes Means Yes: Getting explicit about heterosex Paperback – 2 Jan 2002

by Kath Albury (Author)
3.5 out of 5 stars 2 customer reviews
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  • Paperback: 228 pages
  • Publisher: Allen & Unwin Pty LTD (2 Jan. 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1865082406
  • ISBN-13: 978-1865082400
  • Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 1.3 x 19.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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About the Author

Kath Albury is a freelance writer/researcher/broadcaster, specialising in sexuality and popular culture. She is also known as 'Nurse Nancy', drag diva Vanessa Wagner's favorite comedic sexpert. Kath is currently completing a PhD in Media and Communications at the University of NSW. Her academic research has been presented at a number of local and international conferences, including the University of California's 1998 World Pornography Conference.

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5.0 out of 5 starsFilthy and Fabulous
By A Customer on 12 May 2004
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Popular culture abounds with examples of sexually active women. Likewise, the dirty laundry of heterosexuals has made good TV fodder for at least the past few decades. But whilst frank discussion of anal sex and tea-bagging, to do-it-yourself porn has become mainstream, women who take the lead in initiating, or even desiring, sex are still often thought of as aggressive, masculine, or simply comical. Of course, in bedrooms across the country, or indeed wherever sex and desire happen, women do play an active role. So, why the attitude that women who say 'yes' are less than feminine?
Working from a background in gender, media and cultural studies, Albury delves into the much discussed, but rarely theorised, worlds of hetero-sex. Taking the lead from queer theory and its scrambling of the butch / femme, good sex / bad sex, active / passive oppositions, Albury puts a contemporary spin on well-worn debates about sex, gender, and sexuality. This is not yet another mindless celebration of women-on-top, however. Proficient in both historical and recent gender politics, Albury doesn't shy away from important political subjects, or the use of some big name theorists. Non-academic readers needn't shy away either. Equally known to Australian audiences as the sexy sexologist 'Nurse Nancy', Kath Albury knows how to juggle sex and theory whilst pleasing a crowd. Indeed, with chapters covering home-made porn, 'facials', and women's magazines, 'Yes Means Yes' makes for a thoroughly engaging, timely, and accessible read.
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By Harleydee on 29 April 2013
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good book, got this as part of my college counselling course for diversity.

easy read too, easily understood a little expensive
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HASH(0x8fc21558) out of 5 stars Great means great 10 Jan. 2003
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A proudly post-post-modern academic 'Sexpert', Kath Albury totally relishes the irony of her pop-media job-description and loves her subject to bits. This original, impressively researched book is really smart and really funny -- totally fascinating fun from cover to cover. It's kinda "discourse with laughs" (wait'll you learn about "the Whipple Spot"), but way smarter than just that. Albury leaves no stone unturned in this smooth-reading and sparkling argument for a truly liberated female sexuality in the post-feminist age, and backs it up with some eye-opening research from some of the more exotic corners of pop culture, a solid knowledge of feminist history, and a sprinkling of anecdotal evidence as well. If you don't hail from academia yourself (I don't), fret not! Albury is an earthy, life-loving young populist and makes her material deliciously accessible. Not afraid to take a healthy tilt at some of the icons of feminism's past generations, she busts the female (AND the human) spirit free of a whole lot of obsolete "thou shalt nots" -- her logic is delicious by the way -- in a gutsily optimistic journey round the sexual subway. I found "Yes Means Yes" to be just what its title suggests -- a truly liberating book by a truly liberated woman. It's our choice: why shouldn't life feel good? This book sure made this reader feel that way. And I loved the Mills & Boon cover artwork too.
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HASH(0x8ff23b88) out of 5 stars Yes! 9 Jan. 2003
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This is a witty, smooth-reading and brilliantly researched post-feminist argument in favour of guilt-free moral, spiritual and above all sexual freedom in its most optimistic sense. Never has the noble pursuit of corporeal contentment in all its intriguing permutations been expounded in a more erudite, down-to-earth and lighthearted form. That's not to say the subject lacks solemnity: what should take greater priority than freedom? Full of fabulous facts, anecdotal evidence and incisive argument, this book makes a canny academic discourse not only accessible but entertaining for everybody of either (any) gender. It's really funny and really fascinating. The author, a committed and apparently lifeloving feminist, doesn't let the cause itself stand in the way of her occasional arguments against various restrictive theories of previous generations. She takes educated tilts at many of the movement's most famous exponents with calm and occasionally hilariously incisive logic. It's highly educational and engaging, and to me points an articulate way forward for anyone interested in casting off the shackles of sexual dogma. No stone, incidentally, seems to have been left unturned. Intellectual hedonism at its best -- I LOVED THIS BOOK!
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