{"product_id":"the-pleasure-gap-american-women-and-the-unfinished-sexual-revolution-9781580058360","title":"The Pleasure Gap: American Women and the Unfinished Sexual Revolution","description":"American culture is more sexually liberal than ever. But compared to men, women's sexual pleasure has not grown: Up to 40 percent of American women experience the sexual malaise clinically known as low sexual desire. Between this low desire, muted pleasure, and experiencing sex in terms of labor rather than of lust, women by the millions are dissatisfied with their erotic lives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor too long, this deficit has been explained in terms of women's biology, stress, and age. In \u003ci\u003eThe Pleasure Gap, \u003c\/i\u003e Katherine Rowland rejects the idea that women should settle for diminished pleasure; instead, she argues women should take inequality in the bedroom as seriously as we take it in the workplace and understand its causes and effects. Drawing on extensive research and interviews with more than one hundred women and dozens of sexual health professionals, Rowland shows that the pleasure gap is neither medical malady nor psychological condition but rather a result of our culture's troubled relationship with women's sexual expression. This provocative exploration of modern sexuality makes a case for closing the gap for good.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKatherine Rowland \u003c\/b\u003ewas previously the publisher and executive director of Guernica. She holds a masters in Sociomedical Sciences from Columbia University, where she was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research fellow in medical anthropology. She has contributed to \u003ci\u003eNature\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGreen Futures\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAeon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePsychology Today\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Seal Press (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50357102870802,"sku":"9781580058360","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c7e219c8-70e4-450a-9518-300e7b7c2c0c.jpg?v=1728317315","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-pleasure-gap-american-women-and-the-unfinished-sexual-revolution-9781580058360","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}