Critical Readings: The Right to Sex (Essay 1)
This week, we will discuss the first essay (The Conspiracy Against Men) in the Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan.
Thrilling, sharp, and deeply humane, 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.