![]() ![]() I think what you see is that women are pushed into putting others before themselves, in terms of their sex lives, in terms of their relationships ― whether that’s a romantic relationship or a parental relationship or even a friendship ― I think it’s just ingrained in us. ![]() And not just to say here’s the problem, but to at least attempt to make a real moral case for the good of female happiness. So when I put those pieces of it together, it seemed like a ripe argument to make. There seems to be a real value in this hostility to women having good lives. It made me wonder: what does real hostility to female happiness and female pleasure look like? Everything from access to birth control and abortion rights, which seems really vested in this cultural disdain for the idea of women having sex for pleasure, to a lot of the advice that young women get about how to avoid rape, which is essentially saying don’t go out and have fun. The more that I reported on feminist issues, it became clear that a lot of what I was writing about underlined the bad experiences women have so many of the ways in which our lives are made to be less good than they could be. What prompted you to write a book about the intersections of feminism and women’s happiness? What she learned about women, happiness and feminism while writing The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit Of Happiness might surprise you. Filipovic spoke with HuffPost to expand on that response and answer more questions about the intersections of happiness and feminism. ![]()
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