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2021 essay collection by Amia Srinivasan

The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
American cover
AuthorAmia Srinivasan
LanguageEnglish
SubjectFeminism
PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication dateSeptember 21, 2021
Pages304
ISBN978-0-374-24852-9

The Right to Sex (published as The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century in the United States) is a 2021 collection of non-fiction feminist essays by Amia Srinivasan.

Summary

Srinivasan states that The Right to Sex "is a book of feminist essays – on rape and racial oppression, pornography and the internet, sex work and carceralism, pleasure and power, sex and pedagogy, the ethics of sexual desire, and sex and the state." Topics covered include the effect of systemic prejudice and patriarchal expectations on sexual desire, the reinforcement of such standards by a lack of criticism and online pornography, and the consequences of poorly applied intersectionality and reliance on incarceration.

Reception

The book has 12 "rave" reviews, nine "positive" reviews, five "mixed" reviews, and one "pan" review according to review aggregator Book Marks.

References

  1. "The Right to Sex". users.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved February 15, 2022.
  2. "Review | Contemplating sex and other consequences of modern feminism". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved February 15, 2022 – via www.washingtonpost.com.
  3. "The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan review – the politics of sexual attraction". The Guardian. August 19, 2021. Retrieved February 15, 2022.
  4. "The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century". Book Marks. Retrieved May 29, 2023.


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