Sarah Gilbert

Sarah Gilbert is a Sydney-based writer, researcher and television producer.

All essays by Sarah Gilbert

Review: Sarah Gilberton consent
  • Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent by Katherine Angel Verso
    160pp
    Published March 2021
    ISBN: 9781788739160
  • On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint by Maggie Nelson Penguin
    304pp
    Published August 2021
    ISBN: 9781787333741
  • The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan Bloomsbury Australia
    304pp
    Published August 2021
    ISBN: 9781526612557
  • The Tragedy of Heterosexuality by Jane Ward NYU Press
    224pp
    Published September 2020
    ISBN: 9781479851553

The Least Bad Standard

A number of recent feminist books examine the concept of consent, some of them mining a rich feminist canon, from Beauvoir to Butler, via Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, Angela Davis, and Andrea Dworkin, to grapple with contemporary versions of very old problems.

Oct. 2021 • •