The Right To Sex

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Thought-provoking exploration of sex beyond consent.

This book could be a good read for users who are interested in delving deeper into the complexities of sex and its connection to power dynamics, discrimination, and social justice. The author challenges the conventional notions of consent and urges us to think critically about the political and ethical implications of sex. With its original perspective and engaging writing style, The Right to Sex invites readers to rethink their understanding of sex and envision a more equitable world.

  • Orwell Prize Nominee for Political Writing for Shortlist (2022)
  • National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Criticism (2021)
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The Right To Sex

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ISBN: 9781526612557
Authors: Amia Srinivasan
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Date of Publication: 2021-01-01
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 4.24
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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 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 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.
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Thought-provoking exploration of sex beyond consent.

This book could be a good read for users who are interested in delving deeper into the complexities of sex and its connection to power dynamics, discrimination, and social justice. The author challenges the conventional notions of consent and urges us to think critically about the political and ethical implications of sex. With its original perspective and engaging writing style, The Right to Sex invites readers to rethink their understanding of sex and envision a more equitable world.

  • Orwell Prize Nominee for Political Writing for Shortlist (2022)
  • National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Criticism (2021)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.