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

7 reviews

koerli's review against another edition

challenging hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

A must read 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Transphobia, Violence, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Abortion, Murder, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, and Deportation

mayze's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

A intersectional feminist book around the politics around sex. It covers in detail, the waves of feminist movements since the 2nd half of the 20th Century and how certain topics (Pornography, sex work, sexuality) have caused rifts within. 

The books main topic is around sexual politics, particularly in US/UK academic settings. It asks (and tries to answer) questions around consent/non-consent, legalisation of sex work and how current views of sex can have different outcomes depending on social background, ethnicity, gender identification or even job title. 

The asks many thought-provoking questions such as (paraphrasing here) "even if you have consent from a potential sex partner, should you still go ahead" or "your attraction to certain peoples/things... Are they inherent or is it heavily influenced by external factors no how neutral you try to be? "

The book is really well-written and think Amia Srinavasan has laid down her argument in a really thoughtful and interesting manner and it's well worth a read even if you don't fully agree with its points.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Lesbophobia, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, and Classism

ivi_reads_books's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

The book explores among other topics why thinking in absolutes like 'I believe her' perpetuate injustice. It looks at the intersectionality of gender, sex, race, social status, ability etc. and ties them all together in a compelling way. 
I was unsure whether I should read the book because I usually get bored with philosiphical texts but this one held my attention

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Biphobia, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Violence, Police brutality, Mass/school shootings, Abortion, Murder, Lesbophobia, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, and Classism

tanya_mahadwar's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

Definitely a book that everyone should be reading. A bit dense and hard to read (in part due to the weight of the subject) at times, but jam packed with thought provoking questions that will genuinely make you ponder the state of “Post Me-Too” feminism. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Police brutality, Trafficking, Mass/school shootings, Abortion, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Colonisation

epellicci's review against another edition

challenging dark informative slow-paced

4.0

The Right to Sex is incredibly thoughtfully written. Encouraging of it's readers to really sit with the content and reflect, I felt I would have made the perfect buddy read as there was so much to unpack within each essay. I adored the way that Srinivasan was so rarely definitive - encouraging broad thinking, and sitting with new idea's regardless of your initial impressions. The book is a perfect exploration of perspective and a timely reminder to look outside of your echo chamber.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Homophobia, Racism, Rape, and Sexual assault

Minor: Racial slurs

foreverinastory's review

challenging informative medium-paced

5.0

Wow this is such an interesting and informative book!

CWs: sexual violence, rape, sexual assault, sexual harassment, sexual content, sexism, misogyny, racism, classism, domestic abuse. Moderate: violence, adult/minor relationship, transphobia/transmisia, xenophobia, police brutality, homophobia/homomisia, murder, hate crime. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, and Classism

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Hate crime, Homophobia, Transphobia, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, and Murder

joe_dmh's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Police brutality, Sexual harassment, and Classism