1st Edition
Consent Legacies, Representations, and Frameworks for the Future
1. Introduction
Sophie Franklin, Hannah Piercy, Arya Thampuran, and Rebecca White
Part I: Culture and Resistance
2. Could Briseis Consent? A Critical Comparison of Contemporary Women Writers’ Adaptations of Briseis’s Narrative
Shelby Judge
3. Stopping the Rapist in our Path: Resisting Rape Culture in Latin American Music and Performance Art
Eunice Rojas
4. Mera Jism, Meri Marzi: Crisis of Consent and Digital Mediations in Pakistan
Iqra Shagufta Cheema
5. Do to Me What I Could Never Ask of You: Consensual Non-Consent in BDSM and the Limits of Affirmative Consent
Jay Szpilka
Part II: Consent on Stage and Screen
6. ‘You Have No Right to Do What You Like with Me’: Rape, Sexual Abuse, and Consent in African American Enslavement and its Afterlives
Rebecca White
7. Without Consent or Memory: Consent in Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You
Christina Mansueti
8. Beyond ‘Yes, and...’: Consent in the Theatre Arts Curriculum, On-stage and Off
Natashia Lindsey and Emily A. Rollie
Part III: Lived Experience and (Authorial) Expressions
9. Re-establishing Identity through Testimony: The Rape Survival Narratives of Mary Hays’s The Victim of Prejudice (1799) and Mary Wollstonecraft’s Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman (1798)
Megan Batterbee
10. ‘A Skin of One’s Own’: Decolonising Traumatic Testimony and the Poetics of Wholeness
Arya Thampuran
11. ‘I wasn’t aware at the time, I could actually say “no”’: Intimacy, Expectations, and Consent in Queer Relationships
Catherine Donovan, Kate Butterby, and Rebecca Barnes
Part IV: Futures of Consent
12. Troubling Technologies for Sexual Consent
Rosanna Bellini and Hazel Dixon
13. Sexual Offences and Defined Consent: Lessons from the Past and a Framework for the Future
Kyle L. Murray
14. Op-eds and Fashion Shows: The History and Future of Consent Education in Ireland
Caroline West
15. Consent Wars? Towards a Critical-Governmentality Approach to Consent in Post-Roe America
Sudeshna Chatterjee
16. Afterword
Sophie Franklin, Hannah Piercy, Arya Thampuran, and Rebecca White
Biography
Sophie Franklin is a postdoctoral researcher in English literature at the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich, Germany. She specialises in nineteenth-century literature, cultural legacies, and representations of violence from the late eighteenth century to the present.
Hannah Piercy is a postdoctoral researcher and assistant in Medieval English Studies at the University of Bern, Switzerland. She works on medieval insular romance, consent and coercion, and sensory studies.
Arya Thampuran is Assistant Professor at Durham University’s Institute for Medical Humanities, UK, and the Principal Investigator on the Black Health and the Humanities Network. Her research engages with how creative practitioners across the African diaspora express mental health and healing through non-biomedical modes.
Rebecca White teaches in the Department of English Studies at Durham University, UK, where she completed an AHRC-funded doctorate on screen adaptations of nineteenth-century fiction.
