Feminist Sex?: It's in His Kiss

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Publication year
2026
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7-16
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Examines sex in "the seventh novel in Julia Quinn's Bridgerton series - It's in His Kiss" (7) from a feminist perspective.

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Fortunately, feminist philosophers have been working on the problem of evaluating sex for a long time. The history of feminism is rooted in the mid-nineteenth-century battle for equal rights for women. The Bridgerton series takes place in the “Regency” period in England, which spans the first third of the nineteenth century, just before the official advent of feminism. Three basic principles have been, and continue to be, essential to the feminist movement: equality, freedom of choice, and resisting stereotype. As a feminist, the author argues that sex reflecting these principles is good sex. It's in His Kiss centers on Hyacinth, the youngest of the eight Bridgerton siblings. The author concludes that the novel It's in His Kiss portrays good sex that is well worthy of our enjoyment.