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The Right to Sex: Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2022

By (author) Amia Srinivasan

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A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER BLACKWELL'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 Essential lessons on the world we live in, from one of our greatest young thinkers â€“ a guide to what everybody is talking about today â€˜Unparalleled and extraordinary . . . A bracing revivification of a crucial lineage in feminist writingâ€™ JIA TOLENTINO â€˜I believe Amia Srinivasanâ€™s work will change the worldâ€™ KATHERINE RUNDELL â€˜Rigorously researched, but written with such spark and verve. The best non-fiction book I have read this yearâ€™ PANDORA SYKES ------------------------- 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 â€“ its deep ambivalences, its relationship to gender, class, race and power â€“ we need to move beyond â€˜yes and noâ€™, 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. SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2022 LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2022 LONGLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE 2022