Self‐Loathing Feminism
2025-09-10
In her recent bestselling book, The Right to Sex , Amia Srinivasan claims to have given us a “feminism for the twenty‐first century.” Previous feminism, we are told, was wrong to focus solely on women's sex‐based oppression, and wrong too to seek the abolition of prostitution. A feminism for the 21st century must attend to class‐ and race‐based injustice, and it must pursue the reform of sex‐work. In fact, I will argue, from the perspective of radical feminism, “feminism for the twenty‐first century” is no feminism at all; it is a contradictory combination of Marxism and liberalism, neither of which can secure women's freedom.