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(Closing with the litany of horrifying comments she's gotten, so you leave the book having just read them, was especially immersive and familiar.)Įventually, I realized that was my problem with the book: I don't think it's very good as a book. In fact, about half way through, I got frustrated and asked a friend why I was reading the book when the experience of reading it in many ways mirrors walking down a city street. Large parts of the book made me feel like I needed a shower, or like I'd walked out my front door: it's not so much that she's revealing uncommon experiences as that one of the points of the book is how these experiences accumulate for women and on women's bodies, and are NOT uncommon. I've had a hard time parsing what I think about this book, because Valenti says so many important things that need to be said I've wanted to support its project, and I've wanted to make sure my ultimate ambivalence to it isn't some kind of backwards blaming of her or it for her reporting of the revolting things done and said to her. 'A gutsy young third wave feminist.' - The New York Times 'One of the most visible and successful feminists of her generation.' - Washington Post She offers the kind of raw honesty that can feel like a punch in the gut, but leaves you with the warmth of a deep embrace.' - Ms. 'Jessica Valenti is a breath of fresh air. In the tradition of writers like Joan Didion and Mary Karr, this literary memoir is sure to shock those already familiar with Valenti's work and enthrall those who are just finding it. Sex Object explores the painful, funny, embarrassing, and sometimes illegal moments that shaped Valenti's adolescence and young adulthood in New York City, revealing a much shakier inner life than the confident persona she has cultivated as one of the most recognizable feminists of her generation.

Now, in a darkly funny and bracing memoir, Valenti explores the toll that sexism takes from the every day to the existential. Author and Guardian US columnist Jessica Valenti has been leading the national conversation on gender and politics for over a decade.

Mercurius the marriage of heaven and earth