Screw consent : a better politics of sexual justice / Joseph J. Fischel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fischel, Joseph J., Author.

Contributor:

O’Connell, Hilary, Contributor.

Series:

California scholarship online.

California scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sexual consent.

Sex--Political aspects.

Sex.

Sexual ethics.

Sex and law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 267 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

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

Conclusion: #MeFirst-Undemocratic Hedonism

Appendices

Notes

Court Cases Cited

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from pdf title page (EBSCO, viewed on November 1, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9780520968172

0520968174

OCLC:

1039313268