The Right to Sex. Feminism in the 21st Century

Amiya Srinivasan is an American philosopher, professor of social and political theory at Oxford University. One of the 50 greatest thinkers in the world. We do not know the future of sex, but perhaps we could imagine it with the help of Amiya Srinivasan. Sexual harassment, the rights of women and men, ethics, pornography, prostitution, sex at work, at university, sex and state power – there is nothing else that is simultaneously so personal and public, and where questions of pleasure and ethics could diverge so sharply. After the #MeToo movement, many have established consent as the foundation of sexual justice. However, consent is a blunt instrument. To understand sex in all its complexity – its deep multifacetedness, its relation to gender, social class, national identity, and power – we need to transcend the simple yes and no, desirable and undesirable. The Right to Sex. Feminism in the 21st Century is a provocation and a promise, transforming many of our most pressing issues and posing the question of what it means to be free.