Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: Screw Consent A Better Politics Of Sexual Justice
Author(s): Fischel Joseph J.
Publisher: University Of California Press
Barcode: 9780520295414
Pages: 280 Pages, 17 B-W Images And Tables
Publication Date: 1/22/2019
Category: Gender & The Law