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The Right to Sex

The Right to Sex

Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

Amia Srinivasan
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Thrilling, sharp, and deeply humane, philosopher Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century upends the way we discuss―or avoid discussing―the problems and politics of sex.

How should we think about sex? It is a thing we have and also a thing we do; a supposedly private act laden with public meaning; a personal preference shaped by outside forces; a place where pleasure and ethics can pull wildly apart.

How should we talk about sex? Since #MeToo many have fixed on consent as the key framework for achieving sexual justice. Yet consent is a blunt tool. To grasp sex in all its complexityits deep ambivalences, its relationship to gender, class, race and powerwe need to move beyond yes and no, wanted and unwanted.

We do not know the future of sex―but perhaps we could imagine it. Amia Srinivasan’s stunning debut helps us do just that. She traces the meaning of sex in our world, animated by the hope of a different world. She reaches back into an older feminist tradition that was unafraid to think of sex as a political phenomenon. She discusses a range of fraught relationships―between discrimination and preference, pornography and freedom, rape and racial injustice, punishment and accountability, students and teachers, pleasure and power, capitalism and liberation.

The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century is a provocation and a promise, transforming many of our most urgent political debates and asking what it might mean to be free.

 

Amia Srinivasan is the Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at All Souls College, Oxford, where she works on and teaches political philosophy, feminist theory and epistemology. She is a contributing editor at the London Review of Books. Her essays and criticism―on animals, incels, death, the university, technology, political anger and other topics―have also appeared in The New YorkerThe New York Review of BooksThe New York TimesHarper’sThe Nation and TANK.

 

  • Publisher:‎ Farrar, Straus and Giroux (September 21, 2021)
  • Language:‎ English
  • Hardcover:‎ 304 pages
  • ISBN-10:‎ 0374248524
  • ISBN-13:‎ 9780374248529
  • Item Weight:‎ 12.8 ounces
  • UNSPSC-Code:‎ 55101500
  • Dimensions:‎ 5.1 x 1.2 x 8.3 inches
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