Immerse In The Right To Sex: Feminism In The Twenty-First Century Edited By Amia Srinivasan Presented In EPub

written and wellresearched, I think everyone should read The Right to Sex to expand their knowledge of modern feminist issues.
As a woman who is already aware and invested in these issues there wasn't too much that surprised me in this essay collection however, Srinivasan's way of bringing theory and realworld examples together creates balanced essays of a manageable length, to leave you feeling enlightened and empowered.


With this essay collection, the author has established herself among a group of modern feminist writers including Laura Bates and Angela Saini, who's influential work will help to highlight and eventually overcome issues surrounding gender inequality.
The Right to Sex is a sharp, incisive book: it cuts to the heart of the matter.
Its essays take apart feminist issues the same way you would take apart a device to try to understand it: you get rid of the outer casing, pry it open, and take in the many interconnected, minute pieces that make it work.
And Srinivasan is so good at thisat zeroing in on the linchpin of the issues she is discussing, getting at their most fundamental or central aspects.
The topics that these essays cover, too, are not straightforward or clearcut: there is, of course, the question of whether anyone has a "right to sex," but there are also questions around pornography, teacherstudent relationships, sex work, and consent.
None of these topics are new to feminism, and indeed Srinivasan is not really interested in putting forth some kind of "new" argument about any of them.
What she is interested in, however, is trying to grapple with the ambivalence that lies at the heart of all these

topicsand it is this emphasis on ambivalence that I think truly distinguishes this book as a collection of critical essays.

"The question, then, is how to dwell in the ambivalent place where we acknowledge that no one is obligated to desire anyone else, that no one has a right to be desired, but also that who is desired and who isnt is a political question, a question usually answered by more general patterns of domination and exclusion.
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Ambivalence, in The Right to Sex, is not about finding complication that is not there, but rather about the messiness that is inherent to any kind of intersectional approach to feminism.
This isn't an easy approach to take with regards to issues like consent or pornography, either fundamentally, it means highlighting the many ways in which a feminism that is a straightforward project of uniting "all women" is bound to fail.
All of this is to say, Srinivasan may take apart these issues and their structural underpinnings as you would take apart a device, but she isn't interested in putting that "device" back together into a neat, discrete thing, so to speak.
The exposed device is precisely the point: to open this thing, look at how it works, mess around with the things that make it work, and then leave it to its messiness.
Srinivasan unravels the complications, yes, but she doesn't offer easy answers,

For me, The Right to Sex works as a book not just because it is compelling in its ideas, but also because it is remarkably lucid in its delivery of those ideas.
Srinivasan renders complexity in a sparse, direct style that is still able to preserve the heft of that complexity, and that is all the more impressive for how accessible it is.
What I always ask myself when I read a book like this is: did I come away learning something new after reading it, or did it make me think about something differently And in the case of The Right to Sex, the answer is: absolutely.


Thanks so much to FSG for providing me with an audiobook of this via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review! "on not sleeping with your students" is for sure the strongest essay, and "sex, carceralism, capitalism" is the second strongest.
i agree with some others that srinivasan's tone still feels too measured and respectful, even when it comes to people/ideas that she explicitly wants to condemn.
the fact that catherine mackinnon is undoubtedly the mostcited thinker in this book but that srinivasan doesn't really go into/confront mackinnon's antisex worker stances feels like an intellectual failure when the entirety of this book is about considering/exploring, and then countering, ideas in feminism that srinivasan disagrees with.
i also think that, as a UKbased cis feminist, she should have been more clear about who in her citations is transexclusionary eg what is the point of simply namedropping julie bindel whom srinivasan lists as an "antiprostitution feminist" and leaves it at that.
overall, i felt that srinivasan spent a little too much time describing/summarising and a bit less time engaging in thorough critique I would have loved to hear more of her very interesting ideas and point of view.
for instance, in the porn essay, srinivasan perfunctorily mentions chinese yaoi which is called danmei, actually being "porn by women for women" yet completely fails to mention that the porn DEPICTS MEN, which you'd think would actually be very interesting to her arguments on the depiction of women in porn if she didn't want to get into it, then why mention it in the first place anyway, perhaps the smaller flaws/issues are an editorial fault rather than srinivasan's.
i really enjoy and respect her work and i look forward to reading more from her It's nice to read a brilliant theorist discuss issues of sex, consent, misogyny and I also love how some of the parts of the book are written in response to her critics.
If I have a criticism and it's not a minor one, it is that the book feels too much like a series of articles with widely varying levels of quality.
I was hoping for some original ideas, but this entire book of essays is very rote and hohum, It was published in, and yet it reads as if Amia Srinivasan has just heard about incels and MeToo for the first time.
She cites Catharine MacKinnon a lot and cobbles together overreported news stories and ends up with very little original to say at all.
Nothing is new or interesting here: Feminism is muddy, The sexual revolution didn't give us freedom, Racism is closely related to our treatment of women, Poverty matters. And so forth. The book is almost entirely focused on the U, S. , which is also boring, as I was hoping for a broader worldly perspective from someone who teaches in the U.
K. and, according to the dust jacket, was "raised in London, New York, Singapore, and Taiwan, " Definitely want the physical copy for my own book, I think this book was pretty good though I wish we had more of her opinion on things even if I may have ended up disagreeing with them.
I dont know if I agree with writing a book and claiming its not meant to sway or persuade anyone I just dont trust that but maybe I dont understand philosophy.
I found that the book suffered from trying to copy too many topics with some essays feeling fleshed out and some feeling rushed like the last one, and CODA.
Overall I have minor gripes with the writing style but found it a worthwhile read This is about the differences between reformist and revolutionary politics, eyeopening to someone like me who's been deeply invested albeit hardly involved in the former.


The essay "Talking To My Students About Porn" is extremely interesting, and dare I say comforting if you're parenting teenagers or young adults.
Thrilling, sharp, and deeply humane, philosopher Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sex: Feminism in the TwentyFirst Century upends the way we discussor avoid discussingthe problems and politics of sex.


How should we think about sex It is a thing we have and also a thing we do a supposedly private act laden with public meaning a personal preference shaped by outside forces a place where pleasure and ethics can pull wildly apart.


How should we talk about sex Since MeToo many have fixed on consent as the key framework for achieving sexual justice.
Yet consent is a blunt tool, To grasp sex in all its complexityits deep ambivalences, its relationship to gender, class, race and powerwe need to move beyond yes and no, wanted and unwanted.


We do not know the future of sexbut perhaps we could imagine it, Amia Srinivasans stunning debut helps us do just that, She traces the meaning of sex in our world, animated by the hope of a different world, She reaches back into an older feminist tradition that was unafraid to think of sex as a political phenomenon.
She discusses a range of fraught relationshipsbetween discrimination and preference, pornography and freedom, rape and racial injustice, punishment and accountability, students and teachers, pleasure and power, capitalism and liberation.


The Right to Sex: Feminism in the TwentyFirst Century is a provocation and a promise, transforming many of our most urgent political debates and asking what it might mean to be free.
By reviving long lost debates central to our contemporary selfconcepts, and juxtaposing them with diasporic Asian feminisms, Amia Srinivasan reveals both the material opportunities and deadends of a century long conscious trajectory towards female empowerment.
The Right to Sex reminds us of the foundational complexities to Women's Liberation ideas and why we are still grappling with them.
This gathering of evidence invites readers to create new knowledge, Srinivasans texts have been widely discussed, and they certainly are interesting to read, but many are also overly long and meandering, which is something I dont appreciate when it comes to essays that specifically aim to make argumentative points.
As a German, I also found it striking that the author is strongly focused on feminist debates and writers in the US and the UK, although thinkers from other countries have been of utmost importance to the Western feminist discussion not to mention female activists and authors from other world regions.
Still, the six chapters have held my attention and I liked the references to reallife cases and hypothetical scenarios that illuminated the theoretical points its just that her own arguments should have been rendered more clearly, especially as they are partly controversial or at least debatable.


The chapters deal with
The nonexistent conspiracy“ against men
Pornography
Incels
Reactions to the publication of the essay about incels
Why teachers also university professors shouldnt sleep with students, even if they consent
Sex, carceralism, and capitalism

Kudos to Srinivasan for not only feeding into Instagram feminism that tackles easy points in order to collect likes: This book also considers difficult questions that seem impossible to decide, and thats what makes it intellectually challenging.

I admire Srinivasan greatly, but I have to say, this book wasn't particularly mindblowing for me, I wonder if I was necessarily the target audience, Each essay offers a wonderful introduction to contemporary feminist issues regarding sex, including incel culture and studentteacher relationships, The issue is, as someone who had already been exposed to thorough commentary on each of these issues, I didn't find that the essays offered any new insight for me.
I think that for someone who is new to this field, this book would be a brilliant read, I, on the other hand, craved more detail, more of a firm stance on each issue, I obviously don't know Srinivasan personally, so I won't make any claims on her passion for the subjects she discusses clearly, the time and dedication required to research and craft a book like this indicates some level of commitment.
But at the same time, many of her essays lacked a sense of urgency, an indication of having personal stakes in each issue, which I believe make social commentary most powerful.
Indeed, the essay I enjoyed most was 'On Not Sleeping with Your Students', a chapter where Srinivasan's own teaching experience and personal pedagogy showed through again and again.
I thought that the other essays lacked this sense of personal involvement, Additionally, I was often frustrated by the lack of detail given in many parts of the text, Again, I think this goes back to my observation that I do not seem to be the target audience for this book for someone just beginning to learn about these topics, too much information would be overwhelming.
But since I already had a decent grasp on each of these topics, I question why Srinivasan is so hesitant to offer details into the potential solutions for them.
For example, why is it that she only briefly mentions alternatives to carceralism that are already beginning to be implemented at the end of her essay 'Sex, Carceralism, Capitalism', on the penultimate page of the entire book Why is it that more space is not given not only to recognising the issues of the present day, but to concrete paths to a better future This is a response I have to many books on feminist issues, and maybe I am being too demanding of Srinivasan and authors like her.
Or perhaps the issue is that this book is borne of academia, sensitive to but many levels detached from the very real material needs of the vulnerable people it discusses.
And maybe there is a discomfort with that observation that I do not yet know how to articulate fully.
Vynikajúci úvod a prehľad niektorých súčasných feministických tém a perspektív, citlivý, uvážlivý skvelo a pútavo napísaný.
Tých aa pol eseje vám ubehne rýchlejšie, než by ste čakali,

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