The Right to Sex

Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

A landmark book that provides us with a new way of thinking about sex, from one of the most exciting and important young intellectuals at work today.

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.

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 rethink sex as a political phenomenon.

Searching, trenchant and extraordinarily original, The Right to Sex is a landmark examination of the politics and ethics of sex in this world, animated by the hope of a different one.

'Unparalleled and extraordinary . . . A bracing revivification of a crucial lineage in feminist writing' — Jia Tolentino

'I believe Amia Srinivasan's work will change the world' — Katherine Rundell

'Rigorously researched, but written with such spark and verve. The best non-fiction book I have read this year' — Pandora Sykes

ISBN: 9781526612540 | Published: 30 August 2022 (first published 2021) | Paperback | 304 pages