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The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
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"Laser-cut writing and a stunning intellect. If only every writer made this much beautiful sense." ―Lisa Taddeo, author of Three Women "Amia Srinivasan is an unparalleled and extraordinary writer―no one X-rays an argument, a desire, a contradiction, a defense mechanism quite like her. In stripping the new politics of sex and power down to its fundamental and sometimes clashing principles, The Right to Sex is a bracing revivification of a crucial lineage in feminist Srinivasan is daring, compassionate, and in relentless search of a new frame." ―Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Reflections on Self Delusion Thrilling, sharp, and deeply humane, philosopher Amia Srinivasan's The Right to 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 complexity ― its deep ambivalences, its relationship to gender, class, race and power ― we 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 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.
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"But radical politics requires a programme."
"Srinivasan's powerful thinking is matched by her powerful language, often striking like an electric revelation at the core of an issue."
"Srinivasan's willingness to take this and other risks is admirable, an enactment of her insistence that feminist politics are necessarily uncomfortable."
"Srinivasan has written a compassionate book."
"She is at her strongest when demystifying it as a framework that attacks the system rather than 'men' as a group."
"too often Srinivasan seems hemmed in by her awareness of what the 'correct' answer should be ..."
"I've thoroughly audited why anyone should skip The Right to Sex, and I couldn't think of any reasons."
"Writing from an unmistakably feminist perspective, Srinivasan reiterates a number of arguments that have become axiomatic in some feminist circles: Teachers should not sleep with their students; sex work is work; and there is no feminism that is not intersectional."
"This exceptionally well-written collection is among the most insightful works yet about sex in modern culture."
"With intelligence and clarity, Srinivasan unpacks the moral and philosophical underpinnings of such topics as false rape accusations, pornography and teacher-student relationships, making her book an invaluable companion for readers interested in nuanced analysis rather than hasty clickbait ..."
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