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The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century by Amia Srinivasan

6 reviews

alexandryareads's review

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Violence, Rape, Sexism, Misogyny, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: War, Suicide attempt, Police brutality, and Gun violence

ivi_reads_books's review

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

The book explores among other topics why thinking in absolutes like 'I believe her' perpetuate injustice. It looks at the intersectionality of gender, sex, race, social status, ability etc. and ties them all together in a compelling way. 
I was unsure whether I should read the book because I usually get bored with philosiphical texts but this one held my attention

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Physical abuse, Murder, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Classism, Abortion, Mass/school shootings, Violence, Homophobia, Hate crime, Body shaming, Misogyny, Biphobia, Slavery, Sexism, Police brutality, Sexual harassment, Lesbophobia, Colonisation, Gun violence, Suicide, Sexual violence, Rape, Racism, Sexual assault, Ableism, and Alcohol

dominic_t's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

I really enjoyed this book. I didn't agree with everything the author said, but I found it all incredibly thought-provoking. She did a great job of supporting her arguments, and her tone was very engaging. 

The title is deliberately inflammatory, but it really does suit the collection of essays. The author really interrogates the liberal ideas of sexual freedom that are prevalent in mainstream western feminism. She argues that our sexual desires and behaviors do have political implications, and that statement makes a lot of people very uncomfortable. But I think we owe it to ourselves to push through that discomfort and listen to what she's saying. She's not saying that your desires have to be "politically correct" or that you should sleep with people you don't want to sleep with. She's saying that marginalized people are also marginalized when seeking sexual relationships, and we need to engage with that fact instead of ignoring it. "The question, then, is how to dwell in the ambivalent place where we acknowledge that no one is obligated to desire anyone else, and that no one has a right to be desired, but also that who is desired and who isn't is a political question, a question often answered by more general patterns of domination and exclusion" (p. 90). I love that she invites us to engage with that question without giving a straightforward, easy answer.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Gun violence, Sexual content, and Violence

Minor: Domestic abuse and Sexual violence

theresa_ac's review

informative reflective slow-paced

3.75

The author had a lot of good arguments in her essays, but I wasn't really a fan of her tone, kind of as if she were the be all end all authority on the topics.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Deadnaming and Gun violence

There were many topics on the progression of feminism--from heterosexual marriage as a means to control or take back control to trans-exclusionary feminism to inceldom

chiaralzr's review

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.75

This book was great. Amia Srinivasan made excellent arguments on a variety of complex topics regarding women's liberation. Recommended!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexism, Gun violence, Classism, Hate crime, Xenophobia, Sexual harassment, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Sexual content, Transphobia, Racism, and Rape

z0eok's review

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Violence, Sexual harassment, Gun violence, Racism, Sexism, and Sexual violence