{"product_id":"the-right-to-sex-amia-srinivasan","title":"The Right to Sex (Amia Srinivasan)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBLACKWELL'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEssential lessons on the world we live in, from one of our greatest young thinkers - a guide to what everybody is talking about today\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eUnparalleled and extraordinary . . . A bracing revivification of a crucial lineage in feminist writing' \u003c\/b\u003eJIA TOLENTINO\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'I believe Amia Srinivasan's work will change the world' \u003c\/b\u003eKATHERINE RUNDELL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Rigorously researched, but written with such spark and verve. The best non-fiction book I have read this year\u003c\/b\u003e' PANDORA SYKES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-------------------------\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow should we talk about sex? \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo 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 need to rethink sex as a political phenomenon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Searching, trenchant and extraordinarily original, \u003ci\u003eThe Right to Sex\u003c\/i\u003e is a landmark examination of the politics and ethics of sex in this world, animated by the hope of a different one.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2022\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2022\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE 2022\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAmia Srinivasan was born in 1984 in Bahrain and raised in London, New York, Singapore and Taiwan. She is currently the Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at All Souls College, Oxford, and has held permanent or visiting academic posts at University College London, Yale, NYU and UCLA. She has written on subjects as diverse as sex, death, octopuses, suicide, anger, education and many others for publications including the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, where she is a contributing editor, the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement \u003c\/i\u003eand the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Oxford.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Englisch, 304 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65877547286877,"sku":"K094799590","price":11.3,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9479959000001A.jpg?v=1788978684","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/the-right-to-sex-amia-srinivasan","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}