When as a teenager Katherine Angel felt herself suddenly overflowing with lust, she began to wonder: Where are the similarly hungry women? In "Unmastered: A Book on Desire, Most Difficult to Tell," she says of her burgeoning erotic wanting, "The words I would have put this into, had I felt the urge -- the words I still put this into -- are these: I feel like a man."

This is a book for every woman who has ever felt like a man for being sexual.

It is largely a sexual autobiography, but also self-conscious proof-positive that women are capable of being just as desirous as men. She writes poetically about having her partner ejaculate on her: “I love this. The sudden wet coolness on me. The smell: summer rain on cement. Fresh, open windows.” Of her lover's swollen member, she says, "It is beautiful. It unnerves me, in its gorgeous attentiveness." It would be a daringly personal work for any woman to write, but perhaps especially so for Angel, a Cambridge-educated academic and feminist who has researched female s...