The Right to Sex. Feminism in the 21st Century

Amia Srinivasan – 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 through Amia Srinivasan. Sexual harassment, the rights of women and men, ethics, pornography, prostitution, sex at work, in university, sex and state power – there is nothing else that is simultaneously so personal and societal, and where questions of pleasure and ethics could diverge so sharply. After the #MeToo movement, many have identified consent as the basis of sexual justice. However, consent is a crude tool. To understand sex in all its complexity – its deep multifacetedness, its relation to gender, social class, national belonging, and power – we need to go beyond yes and no, desired and undesired. The Right to Sex. Feminism in the 21st Century is a provocation and a promise, transforming many of our most pressing issues and raising the question of what it means to be free.