Consent Puzzles: Exploring the Ambiguities of Sexual Consent in Narratives and Media Debates
This CFP is a call for essays for a forthcoming edited collection.
Consent is often deemed a prerequisite to ethical interactions—particularly sexual ones. A nonconsensual act is viewed as an affront, a violation, an oppression. For an act to seem permissible, one requires what Heidi M. Hurd calls the “moral magic” of consent.