Is Overthrowing Capitalism the Best Path to More Consensual Sex?
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of The Waves, Slate staff writer and co-host of the podcast Outward, Christina Cauterucci sits down with author Amia Srinivasan to discuss her new book The Right to Sex. They talk about why false rape accusations are like plane crashes—greatly feared, but not as prevelant as we think. Then they dig into what could help us all start having a better kind of sex, and why just giving women money could go a long way in preventing domestic violence.
In Slate Plus, we debut our new segment, “Is This Feminist?” Slate News Director Susan Matthews and The Waves producer Cheyna Roth discuss Dr. Jill Biden’s decision to keep teaching while also carrying out her First Lady “duties”.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:03.4 | This is the waves. |
| 0:05.6 | This is the waves. |
| 0:06.6 | This is the waves. |
| 0:07.7 | This is the waves. |
| 0:08.5 | This is the waves. |
| 0:09.6 | This is the waves. |
| 0:10.2 | This is the waves. |
| 0:14.2 | Welcome to the waves, Slate's podcast about gender, feminism, and who's actually making false rape accusations. |
| 0:25.6 | Every episode, you get a new pair of women to talk about the thing we can't get off our minds. |
| 0:30.9 | And today, you've got me, Christina Cotterucci. |
| 0:34.3 | I'm a senior writer at Slate and host of the Slate podcast Outward. And joining me is |
| 0:40.1 | philosopher and Oxford professor Amia Srinivasan, who just published a new collection of essays this |
| 0:46.4 | week. Amia, welcome to the waves. Thank you so much for having me. Amia's new book is called |
| 0:52.4 | The Right to Sex, Feminism in the 21st Century. |
| 0:56.4 | And it covers a lot of ground that we've explored on the show, sexual power dynamics, capitalist feminism, how to respond to sexual abusers. |
| 1:05.4 | The book is deeply rooted in a variety of feminist ideologies and scholarship, but Amia asks new questions |
| 1:14.1 | of a lot of those older texts, which I found just incredibly energizing and challenging. |
| 1:20.4 | I'm so excited to talk about it on the show today. For the most part, I would say these essays |
| 1:26.2 | don't offer prescriptive arguments. |
| 1:28.5 | They're not policy papers. |
| 1:29.9 | They're reframings of issues that feminists in every wave of the movement have grappled with. |
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