VIRTUAL BOOK LAUNCH | Meredith Ralston - Slut-Shaming, Whorephobia and the Unfinished Sexual Revolution

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Mount Saint Vincent University and the Alexa McDonough Institute for Women, Gender and Social Justice present a virtual launch of Meredith Ralston's new book, Slut-Shaming, Whorephobia and the Unfinished Sexual Revolution. The launch will be live streamed and consist of video messages from special guests, a conversation between Meredith Ralston and The Pleasure Gap author Katherine Rowland, and a Q&A session.

Meredith Ralston is professor of women's studies at Mount Saint Vincent University and a documentary filmmaker whose films include Hope in Heaven, Selling Sex, and Why Women Run.

ABOUT THE BOOK

In Slut-Shaming, Whorephobia, and the Unfinished Sexual Revolution Meredith Ralston looks at the common denominators between the #MeToo movement, the myths of rape culture, and the pleasure gap between men and women to reveal the ways that sexually liberated women threaten the patriarchy. Weaving in history, pop culture, philosophy, interviews with sex workers, and personal anecdotes, Ralston shows how women cannot achieve sexual equality until the sexual double standard and good girl/bad girl binary are eliminated and women viewed by society as "whores" are destigmatized. Illustrating how women's sexuality is policed by both men and women, she argues that women must be allowed the same personal autonomy as men: the freedom to make sexual decisions for themselves, to obtain orgasm equality, and to insist on their own sexual pleasure.