
Description
Nuanced, timely, and essential for the #MeToo era - tackles consent and sexual assault across the sexual spectrum
Product Details
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Publish Date | July 16, 2024 |
Pages | 210 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9781538180877 |
Dimensions | 9.3 X 6.3 X 0.8 inches | 1.2 pounds |
About the Author
Julie Fennell researches gender, sexuality, and demography and is author of Please Scream Quietly: A Story of Kink. Her research has been published in Sexualities, Sociological Forum, Contraception, Gender & Society, and more.
J. Remy Green is a practicing attorney specializing in issues relating to consent, Me Too, and the First Amendment, including a sub-specialty in defending rape survivors against defamation claims made by their rapists.
Reviews
Violated is an insightful investigation into the nuances of sexual consent. The authors draw from scientific data and popular media to effectively argue against a consent-assault dichotomy. Instead, they promote a spectrum of "consent hygiene" as their fresh take on how society might move forward to address sexual violations.
In Violated, Fennell, a researcher who studies gender, sexuality, and demography, and Green, a practicing attorney who specializes in issues of consent, address the issues of sexual consent and sexual assault from a nontraditional perspective. They consider these issues from the broader context of alternate sexual lifestyles and varying degrees of consent and degree of force. They lay out a complex paradigm for the study and treatment of cases of sexual assault with recommendations for revising the laws regulating sexual assault. The authors are well qualified to address these issues. Additionally, their study is adequately indexed and well referenced with a lengthy bibliography. The text is easy to read and the various positions are clearly laid out. Libraries serving psychology, social work, sociology, and women's studies departments should consider acquiring this volume. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; professionals.
Those new to this topic will find Violated readable, relatable, and gripping. Those who already know a thing or two will find a refreshingly subtle perspective, one that expertly applies a wide range of empirical research to contemporary, messy conversations about gender, sexuality, and consent. Violated has a definite point of view but it never condescends; readers are instead invited to rethink their assumptions alongside the authors. Reading Violated feels like having a frank conversation among smart and trusted friends about one of the most important issues of our time.
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