Full Description
The issue of sexual consent has stimulated much debate in the last decade. The contributors to this illuminating volume make sense of sexual consent from various conceptual standpoints: socio-legal, post-structural, philosophical and feminist. The volume comprises a range of studies, all based around consent within a specific context such as criminal justice, homosexuality, sadomasochism, prostitution, male rape, learning disabilities, sexual ethics, and the age of consent. It is the first collection to publish exclusively on issues of sexual consent, and both makes sense of sexual consent in contemporary society and guides debate towards better consent standards and decisions in the future. Making Sense of Sexual Consent will excite considerable discussion amongst academics, professionals and all those who think that freedom to make decisions about our sexual selves is important. It will set the agenda for debate on sexual consent into the 21st Century.
Contents
Contents: Introduction, Mark Cowling and Paul Reynolds. Part I: (More) General and Theoretical Themes: Rape, communicative sexuality and sex education, Mark Cowling; Feminist approaches to sexual consent: a critical assessment, Allison Moore and Paul Reynolds; Sexual ethics and the erotics of consent, Moira Carmody; The language of refusal: sexual consent and the limits of post-structuralism, Gideon Calder; The age of consent and sexual consent, Matthew Waites; The quality of consent: sexual consent, culture, communication, knowledge and ethics, Paul Reynolds. Part II: (More) Specific and Practical Themes: 'Risky' women, sexual consent and criminal 'Justice', Margaret S. Malloch; Prostitution and consent: beyond the liberal dichotomy of 'Free or Forced', Barbara Sullivan; The construction of sexual consent in male rape and sexual assault, Philip N. S. Rumney and Martin Morgan-Taylor; Beyond (hetero)sexual consent, Karen Corteen; 'Sexual Rights' and 'Sexual Responsibilities' within consensual 'S/M', Andrea Beckmann; Understanding sexual consent: an empirical investigation of the normative script for young heterosexual adults, Terry P. Humphreys; People with learning disabilities: sex, the law and consent, Michelle McCarthy and David Thompson; Sex is violence: a critique of Susan Sontag's 'Fascinating Fascism', David Renton; 'In the Field and In There': some ethical dilemmas in researching sexualities, John Gibbins; Index.
