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Author:
Amia Srinivasan
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date:
September 21, 2021
Oxford philosophy professor Srinivasan traces the meaning of sex in our world, animated by the hope of a different world. Reaching back to an older feminist tradition, she considers a range of fraught relationshipsâbetween discrimination and preference, pornography and freedom, rape and racial injustice, punishment and accountability, students and teachers, pleasure and power, capitalism and liberation.
What The Reviewers Say
[A] quietly dazzling new essay collection.
Srinivasan is clear about the need to do something about our desires but not about what, exactly, we should do.
Srinivasan covers a lot of ground: pornography, sex work, Title IX, #MeToo, the racial politics of desirability, the incel movement, student-teacher relationships, carceral feminism.
Srinivasan’s true subject is the need for nuance and generosity in contemporary discourse on sex. She demonstrates the value of clear thinking by testing it on a range of topics. You don’t need to agree with her on everything to admire her even-handedness, her commitment.
