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    Querying Consent
    Beyond Permission and Refusal

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

    9780813594149

    Hardback, published 6 July 2018

    270 pages
    22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.463 kg

    "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

    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.

    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
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