BOOK CLUB
Collection of books I am reading, have read, and recommend. Please feel free to send in recommendations of any others I might like.
The Right to Sex
Amia Srinivasan
The Right to Sex lived up to the high expectations I had of it. Amia Srinivasan engages in questions in the chapters conspiracies against men, talking to her students about porn, the right to sex, the politics of desire, on not sleeping with your students and sex, carceralism, capitalism. The book examines the very much discussed philosophical questions of sex and womanhood but through an intersectional lens which was heavily insightful.
The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir
The Second Sex is one of my all-time favourite feminist books. Beauvoir examines the biological and sexual differences between sex and gender, which was enlightening during her time and paved the way for the discussions of gender analysis we have today. Most importantly, this is where Beauvoir famously stated 'One is not born rather becomes woman' as well as her philosophical analysis of the woman as the 'Other'- both concepts being that which I heavily focus on in my own work in the context of womanhood, bodily autonomy and equality.
