“Grant is passionate yet blessedly free of rhetoric and gush. And how welcome is her evocation of the [sexual revolution’s] optimism–even its loopy na’vet” –at a time when AIDS stamps eros with death, when the religious Right uses illness to stoke sexual terror, and when the women’s movement expends more energy on violence than on sexual gratification.” –The Village Voice
“Essential reading for feminists; Ms. Grant is the first to make public that female medical students in Puerto Rico who would not submit to the research as subjects [for experiments with the Pill] were threatened with lower grades. . . . In this area, she is the only 1990’s social historian who has researched events from the bottom up. It would be a shame if serious readers, particularly those who are interested in health and contraceptive issues or in modern feminist history, were to overlook this marvelous book
.” –Barbara Seaman, letter to The New York Times Book Review
“Grant’s questions are so brilliant and her frame of reference so wide that Sexing the Millennium works as a map of a most threatening territory. . . . Grant’s is a positive version that liberation is indeed possible in the erotic realm.” –Santa Fe New Mexican
“Grant has the affable prurience of a favorite bartender, who mixes in tasty gossip as she intellectualizes. It’s hard to resist this blend of frankness and body politics.” –Details
“A lively and anecdotally rich account of sexual revolutions past and present. . . . A provocative, passionate, and entertaining contribution to current sexual debates.” –Kirkus Reviews
“Powerful, important, engrossing–and wonderfully liberating!” –Fay Weldon
“Linda Grant’s Sexing the Millennium is an ambitious, sweeping analysis of the intersection between politics, sexuality, and culture. Her chapter on millenarianism is inspired.” –Naomi Wolf
“Energetically intelligent, shrewd and compellingly readable. . . . Linda Grant’s prose is racy and wild. She sums up an era or an intellectual movement in a few sharp phrases, a skill based not only on verbal facility but also on an astute perception of essentials.” –Lucy Hughes-Hallett, The Weekend Telegraph
“A witty and thought-provoking social history of modern sexuality.” –Lynne Truss, Times Books of the Year (London)
“A lively, readable journey through the Sixties and Seventies, after the mass-marketing of the Pill and before the onset of AIDS, when, very briefly, we glimpsed utopia: sex freed from both pregnancy and disease. . . . A compelling book.” –Marybeth Hamilton, Literary Review
“Linda Grant possesses an intimidating certainty about the recent past and about sex and sexual politics since the Sixties.” –Nicci Gerrard, The Observer
“Linda Grant’s spirited tour of the sexual mythologies of three decades plentifully exposes [our] utopian follies. . . . Her argument is that our fashionable thinking about liberation (“postmodern,” “postfeminist”) has been gruesomely impoverished by the stripping away of non-sexual politics.” –Lorna Sage, The Independent on Sunday
“There is an impressive amount of research here, or sheer information, and Grant writes very well and often very funnily.” –Suzanne Moore, The Guardian
“Written with intelligence and skill. . . . Vastly entertaining.” –Midweek
“Buoyed up with wit, irony and an acute awareness of the value of anecdotes, the author starts with the question “has there really been a sexual revolution?” and ends with the story a sixty-two-year-old woman who takes her teeth out to give head. There’s hope for us all.” –The Face
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