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Title:
The right to sex : feminism in the twenty-first century / Amia Srinivasan.
ISBN:
9780374248529
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Edition:
First American edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.

©2021
Physical Description:
xvi, 276 pages ; 22 cm
General Note:
First published in 2021 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Great Britain.
Contents:
The Conspiracy Against Men -- Talking to My Students About Porn -- The Right to Sex -- Coda: The Politics of Desire -- On Not Sleeping With Your Students -- Sex, Carceralism, Capitalism.
Summary:
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. 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 for 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.
OCLC Number:
on1235948668
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