Consent: Sexual Rights and Transformation of American Liberalism - Couverture souple

Haag, Pamela Susan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0801485185 ISBN 13 : 9780801485183

Editeur : Cornell University Press, 1999

Synopsis

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 private and controversial matters. At once an investigation of social history, popular culture, legal doctrine, and political theory, her book shows how in contemporary America the history of sexual rights is inextricably intertwined with that of liberalism. Haag examines the nineteenth-century obsession with the perils of seduction and twentieth-century disputes over white slavery, arranged marriages, interracial relationships, and rape. The history of heterosexual modernity and identity must, she argues, be viewed as a crucial component of a much larger historical narrative--that of the ways in which individual freedom and citizenship have been continually redefined in American liberal culture. She illuminates the development of liberalism from its "classic" stage that ended after the post-Reconstruction era to a "modern" version that came to fruition with the judicial acceptance of the right to privacy. Finally, she shows how debates over the meaning of heterosexual consent and violence contributed to this transformation.

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À propos de l?auteur

Pamela Susan Haag is an analyst and researcher in Washington, D.C. She received a Ph.D. in history from Yale University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cornell University Press
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0801485185
• ISBN 13: 9780801485183
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
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• Personne responsable: non disponible