Subjectified is a book about subjects, objects, and verbs. It is also a book about clothing-optional resorts, masturbation circles, and sex parties.
Suzannah Weiss takes the reader through her adventures as a sex and relationship writer to explore how we can create a world with less objectification and more subjectification - placing women and other marginalized groups in the subject role of sentences and actions. Offering a deeply personal critique of sexual empowerment movements, Weiss presents a way forward that focuses on what women desire, not what men desire from them. Subjectified calls for women everywhere to inhabit their bodies and hearts - to look through their own eyes and speak as “I.”
The book is for everybody wanting to understand themselves as subjects. Wholeheartedly, the author invites you to follow her search for subjecthood and, should you desire, forge your own path out of objecthood.
Now available as an audiobook.
Table of Contents
Preface- I Walk: My Path out of Objecthood - I Feel: My Body’s Size Doesn’t Matter Because I Have a Big Heart - I Reveal: Freeing the Person Behind the Nipple - I Look: Reclaiming the Dick Pic - I Ask: From Consent to Desire - I Create: My Body, My Voice - I Want: Why Buy the Cow When You Can Both Be Free? - I Touch: Feeling Myself, the Other - I Define: Embody Your Divine Self - I Bleed: A Girl Becomes an Object Becomes a Subject - I Grow: The Politics of Pubes - I Care: Sexual Empowerment Sells - I Receive: Sex Work as Play - I Like: You’re Just Not That Into Them - I Write: Inhabiting the Active Voice
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