2007 Jocop Book of the Year Award

Pursuant to intense debate and two fistfights, your Editorial Board has awarded The Jocop Book of the Year prize for 2007 to Professor Linda LeMoncheck's Loose Women, Lecherous Men. A cheque for Laotian Kip 10,000,000 (US$14.37 or €1.27) will be presented to Professor LeMoncheck at the First Annual Awards Banquet to be held at the Holiday Inn business conference room, Bumfuck, Idaho on June 2, 2007, 8PM sharp. For reservations, please send €100 in cash to The Journal of Contemporary Opinion, 1800 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D. C. 20500.

Following is the verbatim Amazon Book Description of this monumental contribution.

Linda LeMoncheck introduces a new way of thinking and talking about women's sexual pleasures, preferences, and desires. Using the tools of contemporary analytic philosophy, she discusses methods for mediating the tensions among apparently irreconcilable feminist perspectives on women's sexuality and shows how a feminist epistemology and ethic can advance the dialogue in women's sexuality across a broad political spectrum. She argues that in order to capture the diversity and complexity of women's sexual experience, women's sexuality must be examined from two equally compelling perspectives: that of women's sexual oppression under conditions of individual and institutional male dominance; and that of women's sexual liberation, both in terms of each woman's pursuit of sexual agency and self-definition, and in terms of women's sexual liberation as a class. Loose Women, Lecherous Men sheds crucial new light on such much-debated topics as promiscuity, adultery, sexual deviance, prostitution, pornography, sexual harassment, and sexual violence against women. Her book supports a dialogue that encourages both women and men to take up a feminist perspective in exploring the meaning and value of sexuality in their lives.

About the Author

Linda J. LeMoncheck is at California State University, Long Beach.