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Andia Winslow
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Amia Srinivasan
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Bloomsbury presents The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan, read by Andia Winslow.
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
BLACKWELL'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2022
Essential lessons on the world we live in, from one of our greatest young thinkers – a guide to what everybody is talking about today
‘Unparalleled and extraordinary . . . A bracing revivification of a crucial lineage in feminist writing’ JIA TOLENTINO
‘I believe Amia Srinivasan’s work will change the world’ KATHERINE RUNDELL
‘Rigorously researched, but written with such spark and verve. The best non-fiction book I have read this year’ PANDORA SYKES
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How should we talk 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.
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.
We need to interrogate the fraught relationships between discrimination and preference, pornography and freedom, rape and racial injustice, punishment and accountability, pleasure and power, capitalism and liberation. We need to rethink sex as a political phenomenon.
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.
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- Anonymous User
- 30-08-21
An essential listen
Fascinating and essential reading for so many. This is a really good listen and so valuable a resource for men and women seeking to effect real change in a world that is moving fast.
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- Roma
- 10-01-23
Excellent
The most nuanced book on gender relations I have come across, essential reading for feminists and anybody else interested in the effects capitalism has on race and gender.
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- farhana yamin
- 18-06-23
Why patriarchy persists
An insightful account of why capitalism, patriarchy and racial injustice continue and why they need to be dismantled together.
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- Just a person with a point of view
- 21-04-22
Thought Provoking
This was a really interesting and thought provoking book, highly recommended for enquiring minds wanting to understand feminism, the origins of male behaviour, and the impacts of sex on social evolution
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- Temi
- 05-12-22
Just amazing!!
Learnt soo much, so much to think about. A truly amazing book. Made so many notes, will likely also buy the physical book to reread.
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- Anonymous User
- 02-12-21
fantastic
I loved it. I haven't read a book this well argued in a very long time. Audio quality and narration was on point too.
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- marta
- 04-09-23
amazing book!
this is an amazing book, I totally recommend!! For someone new to gender studies, it can be a bit overwhelming. Yet you can take the references and learn more. It is a good starting point.
For people more educated on the matter, it will be easier to read and understand but clarifies very well the connection between gender, sexism, poverty, capitalism, etc. I will definitely buy a hard copy to have at home. Amazing work.
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- Arkhidamos
- 21-11-21
A vital, necessary book for all
I first came across Amia Srinivasan in the London Review of Books, in a truly remarkable analysis of the the “Incel” phenomenon, where her key insights included identifying traditional masculinity and its role in sustaining social hierarchy as the real enemy of the incels, as well as questioning the pre-political status accorded to sexual desire. This is repeated here, alongside many other key insights and points - backed up with real statistics and case studies.
Going far outside the usual stories in the press, from Hollywood and Washington, Srinivasan exposes the racial and class tensions in #BelieveHer, the way that even something that seems positive and simple can rebound to the advantage of those at the top of the social hierarchy. Myths, commonly believed but baseless, are exploded, including the classic trope about the false rape-accusing woman. Srinivasan correctly identifies the role of the state as the problem - the enemy of a man accused of rape is not the woman, it is police and prosecutorial misconduct, in the main.
Questions are asked about what we should demand, from the state, from employers, from each other, in a way that goes beyond the really boneheaded rubbish one sees in the press, both by so-called “feminists” or the blowhard micro-penis types one reads in the conservative press, throwing their dummies out of the pram because anyone dares question the privileges of wealthy, white, able-bodied men. For my money this book is a sensitive, nuanced book that everyone, regardless of their perspective, will get something out of.
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- Yolani Fernando
- 19-09-21
Absolutely essential reading
To be read again and again and again. The book offers no answers but lays the ground work for more thoughtful debate on the most pressing issues for feminism. Great narration made it a very easy listen.
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- Аmazon Customer
- 14-09-21
Amazing
Such an amazing book. The themes covered in the book are well balanced, and translate completely to so many other areas of inequalities. Loved it!
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