Although her book is a work of feminist theory, during our conversation Srinivasan was keen to point to the limited role theory plays in women’s liberation. “Sometimes people say that you’re a feminist insofar as you believe that women are or should be equal to men. I think that’s setting the bar way too low for feminism,” she told me. “It’s also... See more
Part of this orientation involves identifying some of feminism’s hazards. The sexual revolution, she writes, did not give women more freedom so much as lead to the ubiquity of unequal sex between men and women. Liberal feminism focused mostly on women’s choice and consent, which led, paradoxically, to the preservation of hierarchies of power,... See more