Querying Consent: Beyond Permission and Refusal 9780813594170
Querying Consent examines the ways in which the concept of consent is used to map and regulate sexual desire, gender rel
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Table of contents :
CONTENTS
Fine Print: A Foreword
Introduction: The Subject of Consent
Part I: Consent, Power, and Agency
1. Consent, Command, Confession
2. The Gender of Consent in Patmore, Hopkins, and Marie Lataste
3. Consensual Sex, Consensual Text: Law, Literature, and the Production of the Consenting Subject
4. Consent and the Limits of Abuse in Their Eyes Were Watching God and “Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do”
Part II: Consent, Violence, and Refusal
5. The Seduction of Rape as Allegory in Postcolonial Literature
6. Willful Creatures: Consent, Discord, Animal Will, and Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles
7. Consenting to Read: Trigger Warnings and Textual Violence
8. Ambivalent Desires: Blue Is the Warmest Color, Luce Irigaray, and the Question of Consent
Part III: Consent, Personhood, and Property
9. The Art of Consent
10. Sardanapalus’s Hoard: Queer Possession in Henry James’s The Aspern Papers
11. Queering and Quartering Informed Consent: Genomic Medicine and Hyperreal Subjectivity
12. Vulnerabilities: Consent with Pfizer, Marx, and Hobbes
13. “I Never Heard Anything So Monstrous!”: Developmental Psychology, Narrative Form, and the Age of Consent in What Maisie Knew
Notes on Contributors
Index
CONTENTS
Fine Print: A Foreword
Introduction: The Subject of Consent
Part I: Consent, Power, and Agency
1. Consent, Command, Confession
2. The Gender of Consent in Patmore, Hopkins, and Marie Lataste
3. Consensual Sex, Consensual Text: Law, Literature, and the Production of the Consenting Subject
4. Consent and the Limits of Abuse in Their Eyes Were Watching God and “Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do”
Part II: Consent, Violence, and Refusal
5. The Seduction of Rape as Allegory in Postcolonial Literature
6. Willful Creatures: Consent, Discord, Animal Will, and Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles
7. Consenting to Read: Trigger Warnings and Textual Violence
8. Ambivalent Desires: Blue Is the Warmest Color, Luce Irigaray, and the Question of Consent
Part III: Consent, Personhood, and Property
9. The Art of Consent
10. Sardanapalus’s Hoard: Queer Possession in Henry James’s The Aspern Papers
11. Queering and Quartering Informed Consent: Genomic Medicine and Hyperreal Subjectivity
12. Vulnerabilities: Consent with Pfizer, Marx, and Hobbes
13. “I Never Heard Anything So Monstrous!”: Developmental Psychology, Narrative Form, and the Age of Consent in What Maisie Knew
Notes on Contributors
Index
