Querying Consent

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.

"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

• ContentsIntroduction: The Subject of ConsentJordana Greenblatt and Keja ValensPart 1: Consent, Power, and Agency Chapter 1: Consent, Command, ConfessionKarmen MacKendrickChapter 2: The Gender of Consent in Patmore, Hopkins, and Marie LatasteAmanda PaxtonChapter 3: Consensual Sex, Consensual Text: Law, Literature, and the Production of the Consenting SubjectJordana GreenblattChapter 4: Consent and the Limits of Abuse in Their Eyes Were Watching God and "Ain't Nobody's Business if I Do"Keja ValensPart 2: Consent, Violence, and RefusalChapter 5: The Seduction of Rape as Allegory in Postcolonial LiteratureJustine LeachChapter 6: Willful Creatures: Consent, Response, and Animal Will in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'UrbervillesKimberly O'DonnellChapter 7: Consenting to Read: Trigger Warnings and Textual ViolenceBrian MartinChapter 8:Blue is the Warmest Color, Luce Irigaray, and the Question of ConsentCaroline GodartPart 3: Consent, Personhood, and PropertyChapter 9: The Art of ConsentDrew Danielle BelskyChapter 10: Sardanapalus's Hoard: Queer Possession in Henry James's Aspern PapersAnnie PfeiferChapter 11: Queering and Quartering Informed Consent: Genomic Medicine and Hyperreal SubjectivityGraham PottsChapter 12: Vulnerabilities: Consent with Pfizer, Marx, and HobbesMatthias RudolfChapter 13: "I Never Heard Anything So Monstrous!": Developmental Psychology, Narrative Form, and the Age of Consent in What Maisie KnewVictoria OlwellNotes on ContributorsIndex