Consent : Sexual Rights and the Transformation of American Liberalism /

Whom, over the past two centuries, has society construed as sexual "victims"? Where and when did the notion of consent-so crucial for law and politics today-emerge? In this brilliantly insightful work, Pamela Susan Haag traces the evolution of public wisdom on some of society's most p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Haag, Pamela Susan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
Temas:
Liberalism > United States.
Sexual consent > United States.
Sexual ethics > United States.
Sexual rights > United States.
Women's rights > United States.
Gender Studies.
U.S. History.
HISTORY / United States / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: What Part of "No" Don't You Understand?
  • Part I. Feudal to Classic Liberal Precedents
  • 1. "Chastity Is Only Good for the Work It Can Do": Seduction, Consent and the Private Self
  • 2. "Victim or Victimizer?" The Dilemma of Seduction in Classic Liberal Culture
  • Part II. Classic Liberal to Modern Liberal Precedents
  • 3. White Slavery or the Wages of Sin? The Reinvention of the Privacy and Sexual Violence in the Modern Liberal Context
  • 4. "Alleged Husbands" and Bona Fide Cases: Arranged Marriage, Pure and Simple Consent, and the Modern Social Contract
  • Part III. Modern Liberal Precedents
  • 5. The First Sexual Revolution: Two Views
  • 6. "Race Lust in Paradise" and "Sex Trouble:" Meanings of Sexual Liberty and Violence in the Early 1930s
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Index

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