The right to sex
Srinivasan, Amia, 1984-2021
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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.
Main title:
The right to sex / Amia Srinivasan.
Author:
Srinivasan, Amia, 1984-, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.
Collation:
xvi, 276 pages ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9781526612533 (hbk. :)
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1189294
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