The Contours of Desire.

As a result, The Right to Sex is an exciting example of new thinking in feminist political theory as well as a work of feminist intellectual history - a project of recovery and preservation, like so many feminist projects before it. This intra-feminist fighting had peaked, Srinivasan notes, by the early '80s, especially between those feminists defending women's sexual preferences - including the preference to be dominated in bed - and those arguing that feminists should engage only in perfectly equitable sex. Srinivasan gestured in the essay toward a new feminist perspective, one that would draw on the work of the second-wave feminists of the 1960s and '70s, who took questions of sexual desire seriously, without replicating some of their blind spots conis cerning race and class. To accomplish this goal, Srinivasan revisits the supposed losers of the feminist sex wars: the anti-sex and anti-porn feminists. [Extracted from the article]