The Right to Sex

Összefoglaló

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER<BR>BLACKWELL'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021<BR><BR>Essential lessons on the world we live in, from one of our greatest young thinkers - a guide to what everybody is talking about today<BR><BR>'Unparalleled and extraordinary... A bracing revivification of a crucial lineage in feminist writing' JIA TOLENTINO<BR><BR>'I believe Amia Srinivasan's work will change the world' KATHERINE RUNDELL<BR><BR>'Rigorously researched, but written with such spark and verve. The best non-fiction book I have read this year' PANDORA SYKES<BR><BR>-------------------------<BR><BR>How should we talk about sex? <BR><BR>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. <BR><BR>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. We need to rethink sex as a political phenomenon.<BR><BR> Searching, trenchant and extraordinarily original, The Right to Sex is a landmark examination of the politics and ethics of sex in this world, animated by the hope of a different one.<BR><BR>SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2022<BR>LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2022<BR>LONGLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE 2022