{"product_id":"sex-and-harm-in-the-joseph-j-fischel-9780816694761","title":"Sex and Harm in the Age of Consent","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSex and Harm in the Age of Consent\u003c\/i\u003e cautions against the adoption of consent as our primary determinant of sexual freedom. For Joseph J. Fischel, consent is not necessarily always ethically sound. It is, he argues, a moralized fiction, and it churns out figures for its normativity: the predatory sex offender and the innocent child.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExamining the representation of consent in U.S. law and media culture, Fischel contends that the figures of the sex offender and the child are consent's alibi, its negative space, enabling fictions that allow consent to do the work cut out for it under late modern sexual politics. Engaging legal, queer, feminist, and political theory, case law and statutory law, and media representations, Fischel proposes that we change our adjudicative terms from innocence, consent, and predation to vulnerability, sexual autonomy, and \"peremption,\" which he defines as the uncontrolled disqualification of possibility. Such a shift in theory, law, and life would be less damaging for young people, more responsive to sexual violence, and better for sex.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joseph J. Fischel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816694761\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816694761\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2016","brand":"Joseph J. Fischel","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44072818966783,"sku":"9780816694761","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8cfb9df5-8f32-47e7-bbb3-61a089cbfac2.jpg?v=1685444112","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sex-and-harm-in-the-joseph-j-fischel-9780816694761","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}