A review by librarycat97
The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century by Amia Srinivasan

2.0

I had high hopes for this book, but ended being frustrated with each essay, even though I largely agreed with their assertions. My ultimate problem with the work is its lack of accessibility once you open it up. Srinivasan claims that she aims to "put into words what many women, and some men, already know". The problem is that, in my opinion, the words are all wrong. She uses copious amounts of political and sociological jargon along with needlessly complicated syntax. Readers, especially the working women she champions, do not have the time to weed through the jargon and nonsense. My favorite piece of jargon to hate, used in nearly every essay, is the word "neoliberalism". For those of you who don't know what this means (like me the first 50 times I read it), the definition is: the 20th century resurgence of 19th century ideas about free-market capitalism. Why couldn't Srinivasan just use the word "capitalism" with a general note that she specifically means neoliberalism in the preface? Maybe the book should just have a dictionary of buzz words in the back. Either way, the work is needlessly dense....but at least I learned a new word that I will probably never utilize.