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

Amia Srinivasan is an American philosopher and professor of social and political theory at the University of Oxford. One of the 50 best thinkers in the world. We don’t know the future of sex, but perhaps we could imagine it with Amia Srinivasan. Sexual harassment, the rights of women and men, ethics, pornography, prostitution, sex at work, in universities, sex and state power—there’s nothing else that is both so personal and so public, and where questions of pleasure and ethics could diverge so sharply. After the #MeToo movement, many have framed consent as the foundation of sexual justice. However, consent is a blunt instrument. To understand sex in all its complexity—its deep multifaceted nature, its relation to gender, social class, nationality, and power—we need to go beyond “yes” and “no,” beyond what is wanted and unwanted. “The Right to Sex. Feminism in the Twenty-First Century” is a provocation and a promise that transforms many of our most pressing problems and asks what it means to be free.