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From cowboy boots to polyamory, 'Wanting' explores what it means for women to desire

From cowboy boots to polyamory, 'Wanting' explores what it means for women to desire

NPR's Book of the Day · NPR

February 23, 20238m 53s

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Margot Kahn and Kelly McMasters know that wanting is a very particular feeling. What women desire is constantly changing, of course: time, money, sex, new shoes. But as the editors of a new collection of essays, aptly titled Wanting, tell NPR's Ailsa Chang, they were more interested in exploring the process of yearning for something – and the rules we construct around that longing – than the objects that we ultimately do or do not get.

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