''The Right to Sex'' (published as ''The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century'' in the United States) is a 2021 collection of non-fiction

feminist Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes. Feminism incorporates the position that society prioritizes the male po ...

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Amia Srinivasan Amia Srinivasan (born 20 December 1984) is a philosopher. Since January 2020, she has been Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at the University of Oxford. Early life and education Srinivasan was born on 20 December 1984 in Bahra ...

Summary

Srinivasan states that ''The Right to Sex'' "is a book of feminist essays – on rape and racial oppression, pornography and the internet, sex work and carceralism, pleasure and power, sex and pedagogy, the ethics of sexual desire, and sex and the state." Topics covered include the effect of systemic prejudice and patriarchal expectations on sexual desire, the reinforcement of such standards by a lack of criticism and online pornography, and the consequences of poorly applied intersectionality and reliance on incarceration.

Reception

The book has 12 "rave" reviews, nine "positive" reviews, five "mixed" reviews, and one "pan" review according to review aggregator Book Marks.

References

2021 non-fiction books English-language books Farrar, Straus and Giroux books {{feminism-book-stub