Summary of Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sex

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Get the Summary of Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sexin 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: How should we talk about sex? Since #MeToo many have fixed on consent as the key framework for achieving sexual justice. Yet consent is a blunt tool. 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 do not know the future of sex—but perhaps we could imagine it. Amia Srinivasan’s stunning debut helps us do just that. She traces the meaning of sex in our world, animated by the hope of a different world. She reaches back into an older feminist tradition that was unafraid to think of sex as a political phenomenon. She discusses a range of fraught relationships—between discrimination and preference, pornography and freedom, rape and racial injustice, punishment and accountability, students and teachers, pleasure and power, capitalism and liberation.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Dec 7, 2021
• ISBN: 9781669342120

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Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

There are two types of rape: the first is when a woman is raped by a man, the second is when a woman is raped by her own desires.

#2

False rape accusations are extremely rare, and the vast majority of rape cases involve no false accusations at all. However, the public perception of these events is influenced by the fact that they usually involve female accusers and male victims, and that they are often seen as he said, she said situations.

#3

The vast majority of false rape accusations are not made against men, but rather by women against other women. This happens almost universally unknown, however, as we primarily hear about the famous cases of women falsely accusing men of rape.

#4

Wealthy white men are often the ones that are falsely accused of rape, and this has caused them to become extremely defensive of their right to be treated equally under the law.

#5

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