Screw Consent: A Better Politics of Sexual Justice
Joseph J. Fischel
Abstract
Consent is threadbare for sexual-justice politics, argues author Joseph Fischel. Spotlighting sex on the periphery, Screw Consent takes aim at the sex imagined at the center of our moral universe: adult, consensual. Each chapter turns another “screw” on consent, interrogating sex that is unfamiliar, atypical, or weird. Consent, shows Fischel, is alternatively insufficient, inapposite, or riddled with scope contradictions. It therefore cannot scaffold a democratically hedonic sexual culture. Access and autonomy, the author suggests, are more promising idioms for our sexual politics.
Keywords:
consent,
autonomy,
access,
Title IX,
sexual violence,
BDSM,
ability,
disability,
#MeToo,
feminism
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2019 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780520295407 |
| Published to California Scholarship Online: May 2019 |
DOI:10.1525/california/9780520295407.001.0001 |
