Full Description
Increasingly fraught debates about sex, consent, feminism, justice, law, and gender relations have taken centre stage in academic, journalistic and social media circles in recent years. This has resulted in a myriad of new theories, debates and mediated movements including #MeToo and #TimesUp. In this book, Tina Sikka explores many of the contradictions and tensions that make up these debates and movements particularly those that draw together contemporary understandings of justice, violence, consent, pleasure and desire. Drawing on the cases of Avital Ronell, Aziz Ansari, Jian Ghomeshi, Harvey Weinstein and Louis CK, she applies historical, explanatory, diagnostic and solutions-based tools to unpack two debates in particular namely, contemporary sexual norms vis-a-vis what is permissible and desirable sexual behaviour and what constitutes justice in relation to gender based sexual violence.This book proposes concrete legislative and policy recommendations and examines the necessary cultural changes needed in order to retain a progressive conception of sexual relations and consent.
Contents
Introduction
Feminist Waves, Movements and Moments
Consent Cultures, Alternatives and a New Approach
#MeToo Past and Future
#MeToo and the Case for Restorative Justice
Case Studies, Methodology and Harvey Weinstein
The Case of Comedian Louis C.K.
Media Personality Jian Ghomeshi
New York University Professor Avital Ronell
Conclusion: #MeToo: New Models and New Possibilities
Index
