Screw Consent

A Better Politics of Sexual Justice

Joseph J. Fischel (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

280 Seiten

2019
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-29540-7 (ISBN)

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When we talk about sex—whether great, good, bad, or unlawful—we often turn to consent as both our erotic and moral savior. We ask questions like, What counts as sexual consent? How do we teach consent to impressionable youth, potential predators, and victims? How can we make consent sexy?

What if these are all the wrong questions? What if our preoccupation with consent is hindering a safer and better sexual culture? By foregrounding sex on the social margins (bestial, necrophilic, cannibalistic, and other atypical practices), Screw Consent shows how a sexual politics focused on consent can often obscure, rather than clarify, what is wrong about wrongful sex.

Joseph J. Fischel argues that the consent paradigm, while necessary for effective sexual assault law, diminishes and perverts our ideas about desire, pleasure, and injury. In addition to the criticisms against consent leveled by feminist theorists of earlier generations, Fischel elevates three more: consent is insufficient, inapposite, and riddled with scope contradictions for regulating and imagining sex. Fischel proposes instead that sexual justice turns more productively on concepts of sexual autonomy and access. Clever, witty, and adeptly researched, Screw Consent promises to change how we understand consent, sexuality, and law in the United States today.

Joseph J. Fischel is Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. He is the author of Sex and Harm in the Age of Consent.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: When Consent Isn't Sexy
1. Kink and Cannibals, or Why We Should Probably Ban
American Football
2. The Trouble with Mothers' Boyfriends, or Against Uncles
3. The Trouble with Transgender "Rapists"
4. Horses and Corpses: Notes on the Wrongness of Sex
with Children, the Inappositeness of Consent, and
the Weirdness of Heterosomething Masculinity
5. Cripping Consent: Autonomy and Access
With Hilary O’Connell

Conclusion: #MeFirst—Undemocratic Hedonism

Appendices
Notes
Court Cases Cited
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	16.01.2019
Zusatzinfo	17 b-w images and tables
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	499 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-520-29540-4 / 0520295404
ISBN-13	978-0-520-29540-7 / 9780520295407
Zustand	Neuware