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10/04/2021 - 10/05/2021 | Essen

Lecture by Amia Srinivasan: "The Right to Sex"

In the Series "Carte Blanche III"
Amia Srinivasan will speak about her recent/forthcoming book "The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century."

About „THE RIGHT TO SEX„

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. Since #MeToo many have fixed on consent as the key framework for achieving sexual justice. Yet consent is a blunt tool. 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 interrogate the fraught relationships between discrimination and preference, pornography and freedom, rape and racial injustice, punishment and accountability, pleasure and power, capitalism and liberation. 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.

More information on the book:
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~corp1468/The_Right_to_Sex.html

SPEAKER
Amia Srinivasan, Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at All Souls College, Oxford

MODERATOR
Danilo Scholz, KWI-Fellow

COORDINATION
Julika Griem, KWI-Director
Sabine Voßkamp, KWI Research Management

ORGANIZER
Organized by the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI)

PRESS CONTACT
Helena Rose & Miriam Wienhold
Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Tel: +49 201 183-8106
Fax: +49 201 183-8231
E-Mail: presse@kwi-nrw.de

Information on participating / attending:
PARTICIPATION
Participation online via ZOOM. Please register via emily.beyer@kwi-nrw.de until October 4th, 2021.

Date:

10/04/2021 18:00 - 10/05/2021 19:00

Registration deadline:

10/04/2021

Event venue:

Virtual Lecture
Essen
Nordrhein-Westfalen
Germany

Target group:

Scientists and scholars, all interested persons

Email address:

Relevance:

international

Subject areas:

Cultural sciences, Language / literature, Philosophy / ethics, Politics, Social studies

Types of events:

Presentation / colloquium / lecture

Entry:

05/11/2021

Sender/author:

Helena Rose

Department:

Pressestelle

Event is free:

yes

Language of the text:

English

URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event68720

Attachment
attachment icon Poster Carte Blanche III Series

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