Katherine Rowland, former publisher and executive director of Guernica Magazine, recently published The Pleasure Gap: American Women and the Unfinished Sexual Revolution. In it, Katherine investigates everything from big pharma’s attempts to pathologize low female libido to the neoliberal underpinnings of the sexual self-help industry, arguing that women should take inequality in the bedroom as seriously as we take it in the workplace. (Amen!) It's a phenomenal book that unpacks the various social, scientific, and historical influences that have affected women’s relationship to pleasure and surveys the current landscape. Katherine holds a Masters in socio-medical sciences from Columbia University, where she was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research fellow in medical anthropology. Her writing on public health, cultural criticism, and utopias has been published in Nature, Outside, Aeon, the Guardian, Guernica, and Psychology Today, among other outlets.

Katherine is brilliant and generous, and her book is incredibly well-researched and provocative. It will make you rethink your relationship to pleasure and how it intersects with other areas of your life. Head over to Strippers and Sages for additional resources and information.  

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