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The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century by Amia Srinivasan
15 reviews
joe_dmh's review against another edition
3.5
Moderate: Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Sexism, Rape, Racism, Sexual violence, Classism, Police brutality, and Homophobia
joice's review
5.0
Moderate: Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Rape, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Misogyny, and Adult/minor relationship
Minor: Transphobia, Mass/school shootings, and Hate crime
sedgewren's review against another edition
5.0
These essays were perfect for me: they were intellectual without being inaccessible; witty without skipping the nuance; contemporary and relevant but grounded in intersectional feminist history. Amia Srinivasan is a fantastic writer and thinker, and I'm glad she is getting the recognition she deserves!
My favourite part of the book was how lightly she treads in her essay The Right to Sex, then how ruthless she is in Coda: The Politics of Desire where she cuts down others' inconsistent/misrepresentative critiques of her essay. She spits absolute fire throughout!
Although it's slightly out of the scope of the book, I wish she would explore in more detail the suggested remedies to the issues at hand, e.g. using sexual imagination to combat the negative effects of pornography; how we can know when our desire is "choosing for itself" and not "what politics has chosen for us"; how we can give power to the most powerless of women.
Another specific critique I have of Srinivasan's juxtaposition of sex work with slavery (she uses them to say that abolishing slavery as an institution will stop slavery, but abolishing sex work in the law will not stop it) is that slavery actually still happens, and you could potentially argue that their conditions are worse than if it were institutionalised. I still agree with Srinivasan's leaning towards making conditions better for sex workers by decriminalising it, but I don't think those two institutions are as different as she makes them seem.
Minor: Police brutality, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence
dalmavatai's review
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Police brutality, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Violence, and Xenophobia
youngsupernovas's review against another edition
4.5
Moderate: Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence