Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape, edited by Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti

Twenty years ago today, 25-year-old Marc Lépine opened fire at the École Polytechnique, killing 14 female engineering students before turning the gun on himself. In remembrance, today's one-sentence book review will be on Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape, edited by Jaclyn Friedman and feministing founder Jessica Valenti. Both are reminders that each day women are targeted and victimized simply for being women.

In attempt to move beyond the "no-means-no" model associated with rape, editors Jessica Valenti and Jaclyn Friedman assembled an impressive cast of writers, including Hanne Blank and Stacey May Fowles, in a revolutionary and necessary anthology that should reach beyond women's studies classrooms, encouraging readers to critically view the ways in which society vilifies female sexuality and pleasure, thus supporting a culture of rape.