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The Joy of Consent
A Philosophy of Good Sex
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Manon Garcia
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English
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2023
About this book
In the #MeToo age, US debate over licit sex has split into two camps: one insists that consent solves the problem of sexual coercion, while the other equates sexual pleasure with the patriarchal erotics of silence and mystery. Manon Garcia rejects both positions, arguing that consent is a faulty legal threshold but essential to the joy of good sex.
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Thought-provoking…Garcia argues that we need an emancipatory sexual politics based on a deeper understanding of how social norms generate sexual injustices. Ultimately, she advocates a contextually sensitive approach to consent, a notion that responds to the specifics of sexual situations and is relational in nature.
-- Anna Katharina Schaffner Los Angeles Review of Books
-- Anna Katharina Schaffner Los Angeles Review of Books
Timely and captivating…advances a powerful critique against the contemporary discourse on consent…offers sharp observations throughout.
-- Geertje Bol Times Literary Supplement
-- Geertje Bol Times Literary Supplement
From the bedroom to the classroom to the courtroom, ‘consent’ is a key term in our contemporary sexual ethics. In this timely reexamination, Manon Garcia deftly reveals the hidden complexities of consent and proposes how to reconceptualize it as a tool of liberation.
-- Amia Srinivasan, author of The Right to Sex
-- Amia Srinivasan, author of The Right to Sex
A brilliant interrogation of the complexities of consent. Manon Garcia shows us that consent can be liberating—for reasons we might not have expected—in enabling good, joyful sex. A must-read.
-- Kate Manne, author of Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
-- Kate Manne, author of Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
Not since Catharine MacKinnon has a thinker so lucidly and compellingly challenged the way we think about women’s sexual oppression. Manon Garcia spells out for us what we already should have known: that our current understanding of consent is not doing the work that we need it to do and that we have the power to ameliorate it. This book is no less than a blueprint for a new feminist revolution.
-- Nancy Bauer, author of How to Do Things with Pornography
-- Nancy Bauer, author of How to Do Things with Pornography
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October 3, 2023
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9780674294653
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Keywords for this book
john stuart mill; submission; sex wars; michel foucault; liberalism; simone de beauvoir; abuse; college campuses; relationships; affirmative; john locke; social contract; marriage; criminal law; masochism; freud; nonheterosexual; power; prison
