ABSTRACT

Consent: Legacies, Representations, and Frameworks for the Future examines the conceptualisation of ‘consent’ across various historical periods, cultures, and disciplines to offer an expansive, pluralistic vision for future articulations of consent as it circulates throughout contemporary life in sexual encounters, medical contexts, and media representations.

This volume is distinctive in its diverse conceptual scope and commitment to cross-disciplinary dialogue, accommodating perspectives on consent that are contextually sensitive and culturally diverse. The chapters examine a range of topics, from socio-cultural engagements with consent in Latin American music, feminist movements in Pakistan, and BDSM in Poland, to theoretical and pedagogical ones exploring alternative possibilities for framing and understanding consent through intersectional approaches and institutional curricula.

Consent: Legacies, Representations, and Frameworks for the Future is of value to researchers, practitioners, undergraduate and postgraduate students, and general readers interested in histories, representations, and future possibilities of consent in its many manifestations.

The Introduction, Afterword and Chapter 11 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at https://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license..

part I|58 pages

Culture and Resistance

chapter 3|14 pages

Stopping the Rapist in our Path

Resisting Rape Culture in Latin American Music and Performance Art

chapter 4|14 pages

Mera Jism, Meri Marzi

Crisis of Consent and Digital Mediations in Pakistan

chapter 5|14 pages

Do to Me What I Could Never Ask of You

Consensual Non-Consent in BDSM and the Limits of Affirmative Consent

part II|47 pages

Consent on Stage and Screen

chapter 6|16 pages

‘You Have No Right to Do What You Like with Me’ 1

Rape, Sexual Abuse, and Consent in African American Enslavement and its Afterlives

chapter 7|13 pages

Without Consent or Memory

Consent in Michaela Coel's I May Destroy You

chapter 8|16 pages

Beyond ‘Yes, and…’

Consent in the Theatre Arts Curriculum, On-stage and Off

part III|47 pages

Lived Experience and (Authorial) Expressions

chapter 9|14 pages

Re-establishing Identity through Testimony

The Rape Survival Narratives of Mary Hays's The Victim of Prejudice (1799) and Mary Wollstonecraft's Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman (1798)

chapter 10|15 pages

‘A Skin of One’s Own'

Decolonising Traumatic Testimony and the Poetics of Wholeness

chapter 11|16 pages

‘I wasn’t aware at the time, I could actually say “no”'

Intimacy, Expectations, and Consent in Queer Relationships

part IV|72 pages

Futures of Consent

chapter 13|15 pages

Sexual Offences and Defined Consent

Lessons from the Past and a Framework for the Future

chapter 14|15 pages

Op-eds and Fashion Shows

The History and Future of Consent Education in Ireland