Querying Consent: Beyond Permission and Refusal

Published by Rutgers University Press 2018

Querying Consent

Beyond Permission and Refusal

Edited by: Jordana Greenblatt and Keja L. Valens
With contributions by: Victoria Olwell , Amanda Paxton , Annie Pfeifer , Graham Potts , Matthias Rudolf , Drew Danielle Belsky , Caroline Godart , Justine Leach , Brian Martin , Karmen MacKendrick and Kimberly O'Donnell
Preface by: Joseph Fischel

https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813594170

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About this book

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 to Querying Consent address the most uncomfortable questions about consent today. Grounded in theoretical explorations of the entanglement of consent and subjectivity across a range of textual, visual, multi- and digital media, Querying Consent considers the relationships between consent and agency before moving on to trace the concept’s outcomes through a range of investigations of the mutual implication of personhood and self-ownership.

Author / Editor information

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.

Reviews

“Querying Consent gathers contributions that represent a diversity of perspectives on the multi-faceted issue of consent. The collection combines updated discussions on classical controversies with cutting edge and thought-provoking new questions altogether to a timely, much needed intervention and interrogation into the field of study on consent. An intriguing anthology that challenges the reader to think further and into new directions.”

— Robin Bauer, author of Queer BDSM Intimacies: Critical Consent and Pushing Boundaries

"The essays collected in Querying Consent variously call attention to situations in which what might seem to be consent could in fact be construed to as something closer to coercion--not just in sexual interactions, but in everything from software user agreements to the fine print in authorization forms for medical treatment."

— Harper's Magazine

“A welcome interdisciplinary dialogue on the limits, exclusions, and paradoxes of consent, this volume poses delightfully challenging questions in a range of idioms and contexts. What does consenting to consent as an elementary relational paradigm prevent us from doing, seeing, knowing? Querying Consent could not be more timely.”

— Tim Dean, author of Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Fine Print: A Foreword Joseph J. Fischel Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction: The Subject of Consent Jordana Greenblatt and Keja Valens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Consent, Power, and Agency
1. Consent, Command, Confession Karmen MacKendrick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
2. The Gender of Consent in Patmore, Hopkins, and Marie Lataste Amanda Paxton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
3. Consensual Sex, Consensual Text: Law, Literature, and the Production of the Consenting Subject Jordana Greenblatt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	44
4. Consent and the Limits of Abuse in Their Eyes Were Watching God and “Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do” Keja Valens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
Part II: Consent, Violence, and Refusal
5. The Seduction of Rape as Allegory in Postcolonial Literature Justine Leach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
6. Willful Creatures: Consent, Discord, Animal Will, and Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles Kimberly O’Donnell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
7. Consenting to Read: Trigger Warnings and Textual Violence Brian Martin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	116
8. Ambivalent Desires: Blue Is the Warmest Color, Luce Irigaray, and the Question of Consent Caroline Godart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	136
Part III: Consent, Personhood, and Property
9. The Art of Consent Drew Danielle Belsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
10. Sardanapalus’s Hoard: Queer Possession in Henry James’s The Aspern Papers Annie Pfeifer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
11. Queering and Quartering Informed Consent: Genomic Medicine and Hyperreal Subjectivity Graham Potts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
12. Vulnerabilities: Consent with Pfizer, Marx, and Hobbes Matthias Rudolf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
13. “I Never Heard Anything So Monstrous!”: Developmental Psychology, Narrative Form, and the Age of Consent in What Maisie Knew Victoria Olwell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	222
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243

Language: English
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 264
Keywords: queer; querying; consent; sexuality; gender; relationships; technological; production; consumption; literary; artistic

eBook

Published: July 6, 2018
ISBN: 9780813594170