Full Description
This book considers the concept of consent in different contexts with the aim of exploring the nuances of what consent means to different people and in different situations. While it is generally agreed that consent is a fluid concept, legal and social attempts to explain its meaning often centre on overly simplistic, narrow and binary definitions, viewing consent as something that occurs at a specific point in time.
This book examines the nuances of consent and how it is enacted and re-enacted in different settings (including online spaces) and across time. Consent is most often connected to the idea of sexual assault and is often viewed as a straight-forward concept and one that can be easily explained. Yet there is confusion among the public, as well as among academics and professionals as to what consent truly is and even the degree to which individuals conceptualise and act on their own ideas about consent within their own lives.
Topics covered include: consent in digital and online interactions, consent in education, consent in legal settings and the legal boundaries of consent, and consent in sexual situations including sex under the influence of substances, BDSM, and kinky sex. This book will appeal to students and scholars interested in issues of consent from the social sciences, gender theory, feminist studies, law, psychology, public health, and sexuality studies.
Contents
Introduction; Part I: Cultural Representations of Consent; 1. The Whiteness of Consent; 2. Literatures of Consent; 3. SM, the law & an opaque sexual consent narrative; 4. What's in a Name (or Even Pronoun)?; Part II: Shifting Meanings of Consent; 5. "What do I Call This?": The Role of Consent in LGBTQA+ Sexual Practices and Victimization Experiences; 6. How Drunk is "Too Drunk" to Consent? A Summary of Research on Alcohol Intoxication and Sexual Consent; 7. Two Wrongs Make it Right: Perceptions of Intoxicated Consent; 8. An Approach to Developing Shared Understandings of Consent with Young People; Part III: Women's Bodies and the Narrative of Consent; 9. The Right to Withdraw Consent to Continuing an Unwanted Pregnancy; 10. Unlearning Agreement: Imagining the Law without Consent; 11. Consent work: Facilitating Informed Consent in Labour and Childbirth; 12. Consent and Work: A Postfeminist Analysis of Women's Acquiescence to long working hours; Part IV: Consent in a Digital World; 13. Consent isn't just a girl's thing: consent and image based sexual abuse; 14. Negotiating consent in online kinky spaces; 15. Molka: Consent, Resistance, and the Spy-Cam Epidemic in South Korea; 16. Negotiating power, pleasure and agency in online sex work: Unpacking what "consent" means in the context of "camming"; Part V: Legal and Political Representations of Consent; 17. Sex games gone wrong: Consent in the Courts; 18. The mediation of school-based consent education debates in Australia; 19. Sex work politics and consent: The consequences of sexual morality; 20. Victim and Perpetrator: reflecting upon sexual consent, autism and/or learning difficulties; 21. Whose Consent?: Donor Conception, Anonymity and Rights
