Books
- Paperback Edition
- ISBN: 978-1-55861-657-8
- Publication Date: 04-01-2010
- Page Count: 138
- Categories: Art/Film/Performance, Feminist Theory, Forthcoming, Media/Journalism, Pop Culture, Sexuality
VIRGINIE DESPENTES is the writer and codirector of Baise-Moi, the controversial rape-revenge novel that became the basis for a notorious film by the same name. Born in Paris, she now lives in Barcelona.
King Kong Theory
With humor, rage, and confessional detail, Virginie Despentes—in her own words “more King Kong than Kate Moss”—delivers a highly charged account of women’s lives today. She explodes common attitudes about sex and gender, and shows how modern beauty myths are ripe for rebelling against. Using her own experiences of rape, prostitution, and working in the porn industry as a jumping-off point, she creates a new space for all those who can’t or won’t obey the rules.
"King Kong Theory is essential reading!"
"King Kong Theory brings to mind Solanas’s SCUM Manifesto, Muscio’s CUNT, and Plath’s The Bell Jar—feminist eloquence without restraint. You will love it."
"Finally someone has done it! The feminist movement needs King Kong Theory now more than ever. A must read for every sex worker, tranny, punk, queer, john, academic, pornographer—and for all those people who dislike them too."
Also Of Interest
- HAMMER!
- Barbara Hammer
- Rape New York
- Jana Leo
- Women Who Kill
- Ann Jones
NEA Grant will help fund the digitization of 15 Feminist Press classics, and the publication of three extraordinary literary works: Savage Coast by Muriel Rukeyser, Kissing the Sword: A Prison Memoir by Shahrnush Parsipur, and The Silent Woman by Monika Zgustova.
