A review by jess_es02
The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century by Amia Srinivasan

2.0

i struggled with how to rate this book, because giving it 2 stars implies i disagree with its content (and to some extent i do, but there's also a lot i agree with!). my main problem is that it is simultaneously very radical (basing the definition of sex off butler, claiming patriarchy has its roots in capitalism, and not really critiquing or expanding on these notions), but also didn't really have anything that was particularly surprising or 'new', aside from some interesting examples and statistics.

i was really expecting to be introduced to some arguments that i haven't already encountered as part of my degree/a very basic interest in feminist theory, and i didn't find that at all. this is a quick introduction to a number of feminist issues, but certainly not impartial (not that that's necessarily a problem), and there are better resources out there.