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A review by nuraitheodora
The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
Thank you to FSG and NetGalley for providing a free review copy!
This book contains six essays that discuss sex and the way it relates to gender roles and norms in our society - Amia Srinivasan discusses topics such as the MeToo movement, incels, rape culture, student-professor relationships, sex work, and pornography. It is an outstanding collection that both relates familiar feminist issues and expands upon them. Each essay was laid out carefully: first elaborating on the background and history of the issue within previous feminist waves before using solid sources to provide some new arguments, and perhaps, some solutions. I particularly thought “On Not Sleeping With Your Students” and the last essay, “Sex, Carceralism and Capitalism” were excellent. They both brought up some excellent points that I hadn’t realised or thought of myself as well as formulating some thoughts I had thought myself but not as eloquently. I thought the collection was quite nuanced and inclusive, and like Srinivasan was open for discussion. I will definitely seek out anything she writes next!
This book contains six essays that discuss sex and the way it relates to gender roles and norms in our society - Amia Srinivasan discusses topics such as the MeToo movement, incels, rape culture, student-professor relationships, sex work, and pornography. It is an outstanding collection that both relates familiar feminist issues and expands upon them. Each essay was laid out carefully: first elaborating on the background and history of the issue within previous feminist waves before using solid sources to provide some new arguments, and perhaps, some solutions. I particularly thought “On Not Sleeping With Your Students” and the last essay, “Sex, Carceralism and Capitalism” were excellent. They both brought up some excellent points that I hadn’t realised or thought of myself as well as formulating some thoughts I had thought myself but not as eloquently. I thought the collection was quite nuanced and inclusive, and like Srinivasan was open for discussion. I will definitely seek out anything she writes next!