Bøger af Amia Srinivasan

"Laser-cut writing and a stunning intellect. If only every writer made this much beautiful sense." -Lisa Taddeo, author of Three Women"Amia Srinivasan is an unparalleled and extraordinary writer-no one X-rays an argument, a desire, a contradiction, a defense mechanism quite like her. In stripping the new politics of sex and power down to its fundamental and sometimes clashing principles, The Right to Sex is a bracing revivification of a crucial lineage in feminist writing: Srinivasan is daring, compassionate, and in relentless search of a new frame." -Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self DelusionThrilling, sharp, and deeply humane, the philosopher Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century upends the way we discuss-or avoid discussing-the problems and politics of sex.How should we think 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.How should we talk about sex? 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 do not know the future of sex-but perhaps we could imagine it. Amia Srinivasan's stunning debut helps us do just that. She traces the meaning of sex in our world, animated by the hope for a different world. She reaches back into an older feminist tradition that was unafraid to think of sex as a political phenomenon. She discusses a range of fraught relationships-between discrimination and preference, pornography and freedom, rape and racial injustice, punishment and accountability, students and teachers, pleasure and power, capitalism and liberation.The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century is a provocation and a promise, transforming many of our most urgent political debates and asking what it might mean to be free.

”Retten til sex” er en essaysamling om køn, sex, race og magt. Titelessayet handler om incel-bevægelsen, og navnlig amerikaneren Elliot Rodger, der dræbte 6 personer og sårede 14, fordi han ville straffe de kvinder, der havde afvist ham, og de seksuelt aktive mænd, han var misundelig på.I bogens øvrige tekster diskuterer Srinivasan pornografi, sexarbejde, racisme og andre emner, der er centrale for feminismen i fortid, nutid og fremtid. Med sit fokus på spørgsmålenes kontroversielle og komplekse sider er ”Retten til sex” et væsentligt indspark i debatten om, hvordan vi omgås hinanden i en tid, hvor kategorier og traditioner er i opbrud.Om forfatteren:Amia Srinivasan er født i 1984 i Bahrain og opvokset i London, New York, Singapore og Taiwan. Hun er professor på All Souls College i Oxford og har tidligere undervist på Yale og UCLA. Srinivasan har skrevet essays og artikler for Times Literary Supplement, New York Times og London Review of Books, som hun også er medredaktør af. I 2021 blev “Retten til sex” kåret som Blackwell’s Non-Fiction Book of the Year. Bogen er solgt til udgivelse i 19 lande.