• The Right to Sex

    The Right to Sex

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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 a guide to what everybody is talking about today

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    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 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.

    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