Sugar in My Bowl: Real Women Write About Real Sex - Hardcover

Jong, Erica

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0061875767 ISBN 13: 9780061875762

Publisher: Ecco, 2011

Synopsis

Sugar in My Bowl Featuring the essays that explore our fascination with sex and the realm of female desire - what it is, what sparks it, and what satisfies it - this title answers the question, What do women want? It celebrates beautiful male bodies, explores sex and death, pairs sex and racism, and offers a take on the anti-sexuality of a Catholic education. Full description

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Review:

“[A] fierce, fearless collection.” (More Magazine)

“The women of this collection make the case that good sex is never exclusively about the act, but also about how you approach it.” (NPR)

“Reading Sugar in My Bowl offers a rare opportunity to peer in on a breadth of intimate sexual experiences, a wide variety of motivations, and problems and desires you never knew existed-as well as the little thrill of stumbling upon a story that sounds like your own.” (Slate Double XX)

“Abundant with affairs, marriages, motherhood and our sexual sense of mortality it is a thoughtful read, a perfect aperitif on a summer evening. The stories penetrate a secret space in our brains we so often neglect: our sense of sexuality.” (Forbes)

“Jong has crafted candid accounts of love and passion from renowned female writers into a sensual and sensitive read.” (Interview)

“[Sugar in My Bowl] runs the gamut from pornographic and hilarious to ironic and poignant. The result is a fun, quick, beach read, requiring as much or as little intellectual energy as the reader chooses to invest.” (Chicago Sun-Times)

“You can take these women seriously, laugh, squirm, and put hand over mouth at their weird, exciting, uncomfortable, joyous tales of ardor, while still admiring the agility of their prose.” (The Daily)

“Jong partners with 28 collaborators to create this fierce and refreshingly frank collection of personal essays, short fiction and cartoons celebrating female desire...A smart, scrumptiously sexy romp of a read.” (Kirkus Reviews (starred review))

“In this no-holds-barred collection of essays by ‘real women’ about ‘real sex,’ Jong has assembled an eclectic group of authors. [Sugar in My Bowl] is at its most profound when truth illuminates sex as a force in which these women found empowerment.” (Publishers Weekly)

“Jong cast a broad net to bring together women writing about sex. The resulting anthology attests the wide range of female sexual experience.” (Booklist)

From the Back Cover:

When it comes to sex, what do women want? In this eye-opening and courageous collection, Erica Jong reveals that every woman has her own answer.

Susan Cheever talks about the "excruciating hazards of casual sex," while Gail Collins recounts her Catholic upbringing in Cincinnati and the nuns who passionately forbade her from having "carnal relations." In "Everything Must Go," Jennifer Weiner explores how, in love, the body can play just as big a role as the heart. The octogenarians in Karen Abbott's sharp-eyed piece possess a passion that could give Betty White a run for her money. Molly Jong-Fast reflects on her unconventional upbringing and why a whole generation of young women have rejected "free love" in favor of Bugaboo strollers and Mommy-and-me yoga.

Sex, it turns out, can be as fleeting, heavy, mundane, and intense as the rest of life. Indeed, Jong states in her powerful introduction "the truth is—sex is life."

About this edition

• Publisher: Ecco
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0061875767
• ISBN 13: 9780061875762
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256