"This book explores the concept of consent in different contexts with an aim toward exploring the nuances of what consent means to different people and in different contexts. While it is generally agreed that consent is a fluid concept, legal and social attempts to explain the meaning of consent often centre on overly simplistic, narrow and binary definitions and to view 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"--
This book explores the concept of consent in different contexts with an aim toward exploring the nuances of what consent means to different people and in different contexts. While it is generally agreed that consent is a fluid concept, legal and social attempts to explain the meaning of consent often centre on overly simplistic, narrow and binary definitions and to view 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.
This book examines the nuances of consent and how it is enacted and re-enacted in different settings (including online spaces) and across time.
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. Whats 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 Womens Acquiescence to long working hours; Part IV:
Consent in a Digital World;
13. Consent isnt just a girls 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
Laurie James-Hawkins is the Social Science Faculty Dean for Undergraduate Education, a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Sociology, and Deputy Director for the Centre for Intimate and Sexual Citizenship (CISC) at the University of Essex. She is a Sociologist of health and gender, and her research interests include sexual consent, reproductive health, contraception, abortion, gender, sexuality, and hookup culture among emerging adults. In the last several years she has been studying the impact of alcohol on university student definitions of sexual consent. Her recent publications include "Just one shot? The contextual effects of matched and unmatched intoxication on perceptions of consent in ambiguous alcohol-fuelled sexual encounters."
Róisķn Ryan-Flood is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for Intimate and Sexual Citizenship (CISC) at the University of Essex. Her research interests include gender, sexuality, kinship, digital intimacies, and feminist epistemology. She is the author of Lesbian Motherhood: Gender, Sexuality and Citizenship (2009), and co-editor of Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process (2010) and Transnationalising Reproduction (2018). She is also co-editor of the journal Sexualities: Studies in Culture and Society.
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