The Right to Sex

by Amia Srinivasan

English language

Published June 24, 2021 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

ISBN:: 978-1-5266-1253-3

How should we talk 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.

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 need to rethink sex as a political phenomenon.

Searching, trenchant and extraordinarily original, The Right to Sex is a landmark examination of the politics and ethics of sex in this world, animated by the hope of a different one.

How should we talk about sex?

Searching, trenchant and extraordinarily original, The Right to Sex is a landmark examination of the politics and ethics of sex in this world, animated by the hope of a different one.

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Library Liberty Zed reviewed The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan

Right to sex

4 stars

Das Buch ist vier Jahre alt und irgendwie merkt man das. Es steckt noch Optimismus und eine gewisses Selbstbewusstsein im westlichen Feminismus, der (ich mag mich täuschen) nicht mehr in diesem Ausmaß besteht. Das Buch besteht aus drei Essays. Über Pornographie, Rape Culture und sexual desire wird nuanciert und staats- bzw. machtkritisch geschrieben. Ein gutes, eher Einstiegswerk.

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4 stars

4.5 stars

This book doesn’t provide answers, but it sure does ask the right questions.

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5 stars

Lots of food for thought and reflection.

I like how she shows how seemingly "easy" questions can be rather complex and in the end easy again.

Impressive bibliography - the source notes are nearly half the book