Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2022
Essential lessons on the world we live in,from one of our greatest young thinkers - a guide to what everybody is talking about today.
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. 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 need to interrogate the fraught relationships between discrimination and preference,pornography and freedom,rape and racial injustice,punishment and accountability,pleasure and power,capitalism and liberation. 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.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCISBN: 9781526612540Number of pages: 304Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
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'The best book I've read recently... Incredible'- Emily Ratajkowski
'Quietly dazzling... A brilliant,rigorous book. (Srinivasan) coaxes our imaginations out of the well-worn grooves of the existing order'- New York Times
'I've thoroughly audited why anyone should skip The Right to Sex,and I couldn't think of any reasons. Srinavasan's work is too interesting to be perfect. It's superb'- Naoise Dolan
'A daring feminist collection... Srinivasan accomplishes what she sets out to do: deliver a treatise both ambivalent and discomfiting,one which reveals the inadequacies in what we had imagined to be solutions'- Guardian
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