Querying Consent - Beyond Permission and Refusal

Querying Consent examines the ways in which the concept of consent is used to map and regulate sexual desire, gender relationships, global positions, technological interfaces, relationships of production and consumption, and literary and artistic interactions. From philosophy to literature, psychoanalysis to the art world, the contributors address the most uncomfortable questions about consent today.  

List of contents

Contents

Introduction: The Subject of Consent

Jordana Greenblatt and Keja Valens

Part 1: Consent, Power, and Agency 

Chapter 1: Consent, Command, Confession

Karmen MacKendrick

Chapter 2: The Gender of Consent in Patmore, Hopkins, and Marie Lataste

Amanda Paxton

Chapter 3: Consensual Sex, Consensual Text: Law, Literature, and the Production of the Consenting Subject

Jordana Greenblatt

Chapter 4: Consent and the Limits of Abuse in Their Eyes Were Watching God and "Ain't Nobody's Business if I Do"

Keja Valens

Part 2: Consent, Violence, and Refusal

Chapter 5: The Seduction of Rape as Allegory in Postcolonial Literature

Justine Leach

Chapter 6: Willful Creatures: Consent, Response, and Animal Will in Thomas Hardy's Tess of 

the d'Urbervilles

Kimberly O'Donnell

Chapter 7: Consenting to Read: Trigger Warnings and Textual Violence

Brian Martin

Chapter 8:Blue is the Warmest Color, Luce Irigaray, and the Question of Consent

Caroline Godart

Part 3: Consent, Personhood, and Property

Chapter 9: The Art of Consent

Drew Danielle Belsky

Chapter 10: Sardanapalus's Hoard: Queer Possession in Henry James's Aspern Papers

Annie Pfeifer

Chapter 11: Queering and Quartering Informed Consent: Genomic Medicine and Hyperreal Subjectivity

Graham Potts

Chapter 12: Vulnerabilities: Consent with Pfizer, Marx, and Hobbes

Matthias Rudolf

Chapter 13: "I Never Heard Anything So Monstrous!": Developmental Psychology, Narrative Form, and the Age of Consent in What Maisie Knew

Victoria Olwell

Notes on Contributors

Index

About the author

JORDANA GREENBLATT teaches English at York University and writing at the University of Toronto in Canada.

KEJA VALENS is a professor of English at Salem State University in Massachusetts. She is the author of Desire between Women in Caribbean Literature. 

 

Summary

Examines the ways in which the concept of consent is used to map and regulate sexual desire, gender relationships, global positions, technological interfaces, relationships of production and consumption, and literary and artistic interactions. From philosophy to literature, psychoanalysis to the art world, Querying Consent addresses the most uncomfortable questions about consent today.

Product details

Authors	Drew Danielle Belsky, Caroline Godart, Justine Leach, Victoria Olwell, Victoria Paxton Olwell, Amanda Paxton, Annie Pfeifer, Graham Potts, Matthias Rudolf, Keja (EDT)/ Greenblatt Valens
Assisted by	Jordana Greenblatt (Editor), Keja Valens (Editor), Keja L Valens (Editor), Keja L. Valens (Editor)
Publisher	Rutgers University Press
Languages	English
Product format	Paperback / Softback
Released	31.07.2018
EAN	9780813594132
ISBN	978-0-8135-9413-2
No. of pages	231
Subjects	Guides > Law, job, finance > Letters, rhetoric; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics

Product details

• Authors: Drew Danielle Belsky, Caroline Godart, Justine Leach, Victoria Olwell, Victoria Paxton Olwell, Amanda Paxton, Annie Pfeifer, Graham Potts, Matthias Rudolf, Keja (EDT)/ Greenblatt Valens
• Assisted by: Jordana Greenblatt (Editor), Keja Valens (Editor), Keja L Valens (Editor), Keja L. Valens (Editor)
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2018
• EAN: 9780813594132
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-9413-2
• No. of pages: 231
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Letters, rhetoric; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics