Sexual Revolution : Modern Fascism and the Feminist Fightback

An urgent, hopeful, and unapologetic new book about sexual consent, sexual politics, democracy, and the power of desire, from award-winning writer Laurie Penny.

Based on Penny's celebrated, Ellie-nominated series at Longreads, Sexual Insurrection is a hand grenade of a book that demands a shake-up in gender and sexual relations.

From mental health to abortion, issues of race to the rise of the far right, Penny shows that existing social and political paradigms breed from sexual inequality and injustice. As recent global movements demonstrate, it is time for these paradigms to be upended.

Nuanced, accessible and lyrical, Sexual Insurrection draws on years of journalistic and academic research to argue that a new attitude to consent can change not only sexual politics, but democracy itself.

“Witty and brazen. An invaluable case for truth-telling in an age of chaos and lies.” —Emily Nussbaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yorker TV critic, on BITCH DOCTRINE

“Laurie Penny takes no prisoners--she'd rather free 'em.” —Joss Whedon

“A powerful and fiercely funny series of articles laying out a radical vision of a kinder world.” —The Village Voice on BITCH DOCTRINE

“Zestfully indignant, resolute, and implacable, Penny's bold and brave commitment assures women of all generations that they have a tenacious ally, persistent observer, and feisty advocate in the always raging, never-resolved culture wars.” —Booklist on BITCH DOCTRINE

“A raw, bright, urgent voice . . . Like Caitlin Moran, another compulsive and essentially self-taught writer, [Penny] went to places others didn't and brought back things they had missed.” —The Guardian on UNSPEAKABLE THINGS