{"product_id":"what-we-dont-talk-about-by-joann-wypijewski-9781788738507","title":"What We Don't Talk About","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat We Don't Talk About\u003c\/em\u003e asks what if we took sex out of the box marked ‘special’, either the worst or best thing that a human person can experience, and considered it within the complexity of reality? In this extraordinary book, despite longstanding tabloid-style sexual preoccupations with villains and victims, shame and virtue, JoAnn Wypijewski does exactly that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the HIV crisis to the paedophile priest panic, Woody Allen to Brett Kavanaugh, child pornography to Abu Ghraib, Wypijewski takes the most famous sex panics of the last decades and turns them inside out, weaving together what becomes a searing indictment of modern sexual politics. She exposes the myriad ways sex panics and the expansion of the punitive state are intertwined.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat emerges is an examination of the multiple ways in which the ever-expanding default language of monsters and victims has contributed to the repressive power of the state. Politics exists in the mess of life. Sex does too, Wypijewski insists, and so must sexual politics, to make any sense at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000841781484,"sku":"9781788738507","price":24.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/23914113482824.jpg?v=1763309485","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/what-we-dont-talk-about-by-joann-wypijewski-9781788738507","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}