"The Right to Sex"

(Feminism in the Twenty-First Century)

-by amia srinivasan

2021

Reading this book is like having a conversation with your five best friends.

That is, if your five best friends are all smarter than you.

But the title stinks! The subtitle should be the title, and the title should disappear. Perhaps i'm just not bright enough to grasp its significance, but it feels entirely misleading.

The book itself is one of the most exhilarating reads i've had in a long time. Amia gives startling clarity to the challenges and contradictions that feminism faces. When she doesn't have the answer, you at least come away knowing the correct questions.

On issues of intersectionality, she removes the emotional from the essential.

On the question of revolution vs. reform, she offers hard, uncomfortable truth.

If you cherish your foibles and hypocrisies, stay away.

Brilliant.