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A review by tielqueen
The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century by Amia Srinivasan
5.0
really cool book to be reading at the same time as zinn's "the people's history." has me re-examining my impulse to turn to the law to enact justice, especially since seeing how the Supreme Court and the legal system was created to protect the property and rights of wealthy landowners in Zinn.
some ideas/quotes that really stuck with me:
- "Because the law is a male institution made by and for white men. Free speech is an ideological tool selectively deployed to protect the freedoms of the dominant class. The very distinction between speech and action is political all the way down."
- Adrienne Rich lecture on the misleading concept of coeducational. Women assumed to be less capable than men, encouraged to take fewer risks and socializes to be less confident. “If it is dangerous for me to walk home late of an evening from the library, because I am a woman and can be raped, how self-possessed, how exuberant can I feel as i sit working in the library?”
- What are the aims of pedagogical practice, and the norms of conduct appropriate to achieving them? What do professors owe students as students? What might it be for us to set out a sexual ethics of pedagogy?
- the shift from transformative feminism, to a common-denominator, anti-discrimination feminism. global feminism being about bringing the world's women into the global capitalist economy.
- "The history of US feminism is also a history of the capitalist state channeling the power of women in ways that are conducive to its own sustenance—ways ultimately that do little to threaten the ruling class"
- "A feminist politics which sees the punishment of bad men as its primary purpose will never be a feminism that liberates all women, for it obscures what makes most women unfree."
- "Anti discrimination approach to racism doesn’t seek genuine equality but PROPORTIONAL INEQUALITY, the proportional representation of people of color at every level of an UNEQUAL economic system."
- James Baldwin letter to Angela Davis who was in jail: “the American delusion is not only that their brothers all are white but that the whites are all their brothers”
some ideas/quotes that really stuck with me:
- "Because the law is a male institution made by and for white men. Free speech is an ideological tool selectively deployed to protect the freedoms of the dominant class. The very distinction between speech and action is political all the way down."
- Adrienne Rich lecture on the misleading concept of coeducational. Women assumed to be less capable than men, encouraged to take fewer risks and socializes to be less confident. “If it is dangerous for me to walk home late of an evening from the library, because I am a woman and can be raped, how self-possessed, how exuberant can I feel as i sit working in the library?”
- What are the aims of pedagogical practice, and the norms of conduct appropriate to achieving them? What do professors owe students as students? What might it be for us to set out a sexual ethics of pedagogy?
- the shift from transformative feminism, to a common-denominator, anti-discrimination feminism. global feminism being about bringing the world's women into the global capitalist economy.
- "The history of US feminism is also a history of the capitalist state channeling the power of women in ways that are conducive to its own sustenance—ways ultimately that do little to threaten the ruling class"
- "A feminist politics which sees the punishment of bad men as its primary purpose will never be a feminism that liberates all women, for it obscures what makes most women unfree."
- "Anti discrimination approach to racism doesn’t seek genuine equality but PROPORTIONAL INEQUALITY, the proportional representation of people of color at every level of an UNEQUAL economic system."
- James Baldwin letter to Angela Davis who was in jail: “the American delusion is not only that their brothers all are white but that the whites are all their brothers”