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Welcome to the waves. Slates podcast about gender, feminism, and who's actually making false

rape accusations. Every episode you get a new pair of women to talk about the thing we can't

get off our minds. And today you've got me, Christina Cotterucci. I'm a senior writer at Slate and

host of the Slate podcast. Outward, and joining me is Philosopher and Oxford Professor Amia

Strenovason, who just published a new collection of essays this week. Amia, welcome to the waves.

Thank you so much for having me. Amia's new book is called The Right to Sex Feminism in the 21st

Century. 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. The book is deeply rooted in a variety of

feminist ideologies and scholarship. But Amia asks new questions of a lot of those older texts,

which I found just incredibly energizing and challenging. I'm so excited to talk about it on

the show today. For the most part, I would say these essays don't offer prescriptive arguments.

They're not policy papers. They're reframing of issues that feminists in every wave of the movement

have grappled with. How should feminists respond to sex work? Can we change our own sexual desires

by force of political will? And once we dismantle prisons and abolish the police, what happens to the

rapists? We'll get into those questions and more after the break.

I just want to take a second to welcome all our new listeners and to our old faithfuls. Thank you

as always for being here. If you're loving this show and want to hear more, subscribe to our feed.

New episodes come out every Thursday morning. And while you're there, check out some of our

older episodes, like last weeks, where slate writers Rebecca Onion and Heather Schuadel

discussed the death and legacy of teen magazines.

Okay, Amia, I want to start our conversation on the question of false rape accusations.

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