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Or weight and height privilege in the context of hiring practices and salary levels? Or food privilege in the context of widening inequality for single-parent families?\u003cbr\u003eIn\u003ci\u003e The Perils of Privilege, \u003c\/i\u003ePhoebe Maltz Bovy examines the rise of this word into extraordinary potency. Does calling out privilege help to change or soften it? Or simply reinforce it by dividing people against themselves? And is privilege a concept that, in fact, only privileged people are debating? \u003ci\u003eThe Perils of Privilege \u003c\/i\u003eexplores how this word is deployed, and offers ways to begin anew so many of the conversations it has silenced.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49553881891089,"sku":"GOR013196440","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50378179346705,"sku":"CIN1250091209G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50378181312785,"sku":"CIN1250091209VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":51321706709265,"sku":"CIN1250091209A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1250091209.jpg?v=1750754464"},{"product_id":"last-straight-woman-book-phoebe-maltz-bovy-9780771013027","title":"The Last Straight Woman","description":"\u003cb\u003eA fiercely intelligent, funny, and much-needed reality check on the state of heterosexual women.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Last Straight Woman\u003c\/i\u003e is a call to set aside the baggage of what female heterosexuality evokes, in favour of a definition of what it actually entails: women liking men. No more, no less. That a woman is straight implies nothing about how conventional or submissive she is. It does not mean she wants to be accommodating to men generally.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Using that simple definition as its launching point, the book moves to the history of women's desire for men, and how it is ultimately separate from much of the history of marriage. Phoebe then turns to the sexual revolution of the late 1960s, and to second-wave feminist critiques of heterosexuality--a pattern that repeated itself when early-2000s sex positivity gave way to post-#MeToo reticence. One sees men's desires pitted against women's need for safety, with women's own lusts all but forgotten. She examines the ways everyone from queer theorists to evolutionary psychologists has cast doubt on the authenticity of women's interest in men, as well as the frustratingly widespread notion that female sexuality is fundamentally about wanting others to find you attractive. She makes sense of a society where many young adults are 2SLGBTQI+ but a lot of the women so identifying lead effectively heterosexual lives. Is it \u003ci\u003emen\u003c\/i\u003e these women have gone off, or just the confining gender roles associated with being a straight lady?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Last Straight Woman\u003c\/i\u003e offers a way forward for straight women. In lieu of the sexy woman men are gazing at, why not be the woman too busy gazing at sexy men to have bothered with her own looks? Phoebe offers not a self-improvement PowerPoint, but rather an assortment of characters from 1990s British sitcoms, a rare world where the frumpy but horny straight lady had her day. 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