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Amia Srinivasan
Born
in Bahrain
December 20, 1984
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“Feminism cannot indulge the fantasy that interests always converge; that our plans will have no unexpected, undesirable consequences; that politics is a place of comfort.”
― The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
― The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
“Feminism is not a philosophy, or a theory, or even a point of view. It is a political movement to transform the world beyond recognition. It asks: what would it be to end the political, social, sexual, economic, psychological and physical subordination of women? It answers: we do not know; let us try and see.”
― The Right to Sex
― The Right to Sex
“Sex” in this second sense is also said to be a natural thing, a thing that exists outside politics. Feminism shows that this too is a fiction, and a fiction that serves certain interests. Sex, which we think of as the most private of acts, is in reality a public thing. The roles we play, the emotions we feel, who gives, who takes, who demands, who serves, who wants, who is wanted, who benefits, who suffers: the rules for all this were set long before we entered the world.”
― The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
― The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
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