Dynamics of Sexual Consent - Sex, Rape and the Grey Area In-Between

This book addresses questions of sexual consent using deeply personal interviews with twenty Swedish women and men of various ages and sexual orientations. In doing so, it contributes to understandings of sexual consent and sexual grey areas through its combination of conceptual rigour, analytical detail and empirical richness.

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. How does consent work? 3. Seduction or assault? 4. Giving in 5. Giving in – because you want to 6. Sexual templates 7. Knowing what you want 8. Dominance and submission 9. Beyond consent 10. Sexually invulnerable men? 11. We must – still – talk more about sex Appendix: Methodological approach

About the author

Lena Gunnarsson is Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Head of Gender Studies at Örebro University, Sweden. Her work explores gendered power dynamics of sexuality and intimacy and has contributed to conceptual debates on gender, sexuality, love and power as well as empirically investigated phenomena such as consent dynamics, sexual grey areas and commodified sex and intimacy. Her work also includes meta-theoretical contributions where the philosophy of critical realism is used to intervene in feminist debates on ontology and epistemology. She is the author of The Contradictions of Love: Towards a Feminist-realist Ontology of Sociosexuality (Routledge, 2014) and co-editor of Gender, Feminism and Critical Realism: Exchanges, Challenges, Synergies (Routledge, 2017), Feminism and the Power of Love: Interdisciplinary Interventions (Routledge, 2018) and Critical Realism, Feminism, and Gender: A Reader (Routledge, 2020).

Summary

This book addresses questions of sexual consent using deeply personal interviews with twenty Swedish women and men of various ages and sexual orientations. In doing so, it contributes to understandings of sexual consent and sexual grey areas through its combination of conceptual rigour, analytical detail and empirical richness.

Product details

• Authors: Lena Gunnarsson, Lena (Lund University Gunnarsson, Gunnarsson Lena
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.11.2024
• EAN: 9781032628448
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3262844-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sexual Abuse & Harassment, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, LAW / Gender & the Law, Sexual abuse & harassment, Social issues & processes, Gender & the law, Gender studies, gender groups, Social Law, Sexual abuse and harassment, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, Sexual Behaviour, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Sexuality, Law and society, gender issues, Social law and Medical law