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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Main Author: Haag, Pamela
Corporate Author: Project Muse
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca [N.Y.] : Cornell University Press, 1999.
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --  |t Contents --  |t Preface --  |t Introduction: What Part of "No" Don't You Understand? --  |t Part I. Feudal to Classic Liberal Precedents --  |t 1. "Chastity Is Only Good for the Work It Can Do": Seduction, Consent and the Private Self --  |t 2. "Victim or Victimizer?" The Dilemma of Seduction in Classic Liberal Culture --  |t Part II. Classic Liberal to Modern Liberal Precedents --  |t 3. White Slavery or the Wages of Sin? The Reinvention of the Privacy and Sexual Violence in the Modern Liberal Context --  |t 4. "Alleged Husbands" and Bona Fide Cases: Arranged Marriage, Pure and Simple Consent, and the Modern Social Contract --  |t Part III. Modern Liberal Precedents --  |t 5. The First Sexual Revolution: Two Views --  |t 6. "Race Lust in Paradise" and "Sex Trouble:" Meanings of Sexual Liberty and Violence in the Early 1930s --  |t Epilogue --  |t Notes --  |t Index 
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