(The subtitle of the book’s American edition is “Feminism in the Twenty-First Century” - curiously not included on the British edition, which appeared first.) That older generation talked unapologetically about “morality” and “the patriarchy” since the 1980s, there’s been a turn away from that approach, Srinivasan writes, yielding “a feminism which does not moralize about women’s sexual desires, and which insists that acting on those desires is morally constrained only by the boundaries of consent.” The notion that the personal is political was of course central to the second-wave feminists of the 1960s and ’70s, whose critiques of sex Srinivasan takes inspiration from here, even if she doesn’t always agree with them. But Srinivasan, a professor of social and political theory at Oxford, wants us to think more fully about sex, as a personal experience with social implications: “Sex, which we think of as the most private of acts, is in reality a public thing.” Talk about it, yes argue over it, most definitely. Americans don’t think about sex nearly enough - this occurred to me after reading “The Right to Sex,” Amia Srinivasan’s quietly dazzling new essay collection.