HOW THE WORLD MADE THE WEST

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERBLACKWELL S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021Essential lessons on the world we live in from one of our greatest young thinkers a guide to what everybody is talking about today Unparalleled and extraordinary A bracing revivification of a crucial lineage in feminist writing JIA TOLENTINO I believe Amia Srinivasan s work will change the world KATHERINE RUNDELL Rigorously researched but written with such spark and verve The best non fiction book I have read this year PANDORA SYKES 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 2022LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2022LONGLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY