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

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.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

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