Consent : Sexual Rights and the Transformation of American Liberalism

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: What Part of "No" Don't You Understand? -- Part I. Feudal to Classic Liberal Precedents -- 1. "Chastity Is Only Good for the Work It Can Do": Seduction, Consent and the Private Self -- 2. "Victim or Victimizer?" T...
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: What Part of "No" Don't You Understand? -- Part I. Feudal to Classic Liberal Precedents -- 1. "Chastity Is Only Good for the Work It Can Do": Seduction, Consent and the Private Self -- 2. "Victim or Victimizer?" The Dilemma of Seduction in Classic Liberal Culture -- Part II. Classic Liberal to Modern Liberal Precedents -- 3. White Slavery or the Wages of Sin? The Reinvention of the Privacy and Sexual Violence in the Modern Liberal Context -- 4. "Alleged Husbands" and Bona Fide Cases: Arranged Marriage, Pure and Simple Consent, and the Modern Social Contract -- Part III. Modern Liberal Precedents -- 5. The First Sexual Revolution: Two Views -- 6. "Race Lust in Paradise" and "Sex Trouble:" Meanings of Sexual Liberty and Violence in the Early 1930s -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index Ausführliche Beschreibung