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A review by readabilitea
The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century by Amia Srinivasan
challenging
hopeful
informative
medium-paced
5.0
This one has gone straight to the top of my favourite reads of the year, and my favourite books about feminism. Srinivasan's essays felt truly radical and like a natural continuation of the work of Angela Y Davis, bell hooks, and other feminists of previous generations. She doesn't offer many answers, but rather allows herself to pose questions that occupy the merky grey space in some of the most talked about issues in modern day feminism, and with such an incredible amount of nuance and consideration of criticism of her ideas and others that I was blown away. I was expecting it to be quite a dense book, but actually found her essays surprisingly readable, though I have read a lot of feminist theory before so I was familiar with many of the core ideas already. Usually with essay collections I have a clear standout favourite, but all of these were incredible in their own way and I'll be raving about this one for a while.