{"product_id":"the-right-to-sex-feminism-in-the-twenty-first-century-9781250858795","title":"The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Laser-cut writing and a stunning intellect. If only every writer made this much beautiful sense.\" --Lisa Taddeo, author of \u003ci\u003eThree Women\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Amia Srinivasan is an unparalleled and extraordinary writer--no one X-rays an argument, a desire, a contradiction, a defense mechanism quite like her. In stripping the new politics of sex and power down to its fundamental and sometimes clashing principles, \u003ci\u003eThe Right to Sex \u003c\/i\u003eis a bracing revivification of a crucial lineage in feminist writing: Srinivasan is daring, compassionate, and in relentless search of a new frame.\" --Jia Tolentino, author of \u003ci\u003eTrick Mirror: Reflections on Self Delusion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrilling, sharp, and deeply humane, the philosopher Amia Srinivasan's \u003ci\u003eThe Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century\u003c\/i\u003e upends the way we discuss--or avoid discussing--the problems and politics of sex.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHow 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHow 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 complexity--its deep ambivalences, its relationship to gender, class, race, and power--we need to move beyond yes and no, wanted and unwanted. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe do not know the future of sex--but perhaps we could imagine it. Amia Srinivasan's stunning debut helps us do just that. She traces the meaning of sex in our world, animated by the hope for 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 relationships--between discrimination and preference, pornography and freedom, rape and racial injustice, punishment and accountability, students and teachers, pleasure and power, capitalism and liberation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century\u003c\/i\u003e is a provocation and a promise, transforming many of our most urgent political debates and asking what it might mean to be free.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Srinivasan, Amia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/20\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250858795\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.56lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.23h x 5.37w x 0.80d","brand":"Amia Srinivasan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39867245920331,"sku":"9781250858795","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_02af6190-e70b-46ee-91dd-1c9b4c3d1c44.jpg?v=1664370494","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/the-right-to-sex-feminism-in-the-twenty-first-century-9781250858795","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}