Reconsidering Consent and Coercion
How can contemporary theorisations of consent help us to nuance our understanding of consent and coercion in the Middle Ages? And what can reconsidering medieval attitudes towards consent offer to our own ‘consent culture’? Contemporary feminist approaches have identified consent both as a potent po...
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| description | How can contemporary theorisations of consent help us to nuance our understanding of consent and coercion in the Middle Ages? And what can reconsidering medieval attitudes towards consent offer to our own ‘consent culture’? Contemporary feminist approaches have identified consent both as a potent political framework for liberation and as an inherently limited concept that opens out onto other important ethical questions. Proceeding from this moment, this book looks in two directions to understand the varied ways in which structural inequalities impact meaningful consent and facilitate coercion in the Middle Ages and today. Building upon the momentum of ‘medieval consent studies’ as a newly defined field, this volume expands the focus beyond rape and raptus, assessing more varied representations of consent and coercion through an intersectional consideration of power, inequality, and sexual violence. The contributions bring together different methodologies, cultural contexts, and literary traditions to highlight literature’s capacity to reflect otherwise undocumented forms of sexual vulnerability. Offering a compelling case for integrating critical approaches like trans history, codicology, animal studies, ecocriticism, and disability studies into this field, Reconsidering Consent and Coercion demonstrates the vital necessity of a nuanced and inclusive understanding of the past for our present discourses of consent. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1720082026-02-13T13:24:14Z Reconsidering Consent and Coercion Bonsall, Jane Piercy, Hannah Women's & gender studies Literature: history & criticism Comparative & cultural studies through literature Cultural & intellectual history (c. 500-1500) thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history::NHDJ European history: medieval period, middle ages How can contemporary theorisations of consent help us to nuance our understanding of consent and coercion in the Middle Ages? And what can reconsidering medieval attitudes towards consent offer to our own ‘consent culture’? Contemporary feminist approaches have identified consent both as a potent political framework for liberation and as an inherently limited concept that opens out onto other important ethical questions. Proceeding from this moment, this book looks in two directions to understand the varied ways in which structural inequalities impact meaningful consent and facilitate coercion in the Middle Ages and today. Building upon the momentum of ‘medieval consent studies’ as a newly defined field, this volume expands the focus beyond rape and raptus, assessing more varied representations of consent and coercion through an intersectional consideration of power, inequality, and sexual violence. The contributions bring together different methodologies, cultural contexts, and literary traditions to highlight literature’s capacity to reflect otherwise undocumented forms of sexual vulnerability. Offering a compelling case for integrating critical approaches like trans history, codicology, animal studies, ecocriticism, and disability studies into this field, Reconsidering Consent and Coercion demonstrates the vital necessity of a nuanced and inclusive understanding of the past for our present discourses of consent. 2026-02-13T13:24:10Z 2026-02-13T13:24:10Z 2025 book 9782503605296 9782503605302 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/172008 eng Gender and Sexuality in the Global Middle Ages application/octet-stream Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://www.brepols.net/products/IS-9782503605296-1 https://doi.org/10.1484/M.GMS-EB.5.132932 Brepols 10.1484/M.GMS-EB.5.132932 10.1484/M.GMS-EB.5.132932 337417f5-5e42-49d3-8b32-3867e1572190 9782503605296 9782503605302 1 344 Turnhout open access |
| spellingShingle | Women's & gender studies Literature: history & criticism Comparative & cultural studies through literature Cultural & intellectual history (c. 500-1500) thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history::NHDJ European history: medieval period, middle ages Reconsidering Consent and Coercion |
| title | Reconsidering Consent and Coercion |
| title_full | Reconsidering Consent and Coercion |
| title_fullStr | Reconsidering Consent and Coercion |
| title_full_unstemmed | Reconsidering Consent and Coercion |
| title_short | Reconsidering Consent and Coercion |
| title_sort | reconsidering consent and coercion |
| topic | Women's & gender studies Literature: history & criticism Comparative & cultural studies through literature Cultural & intellectual history (c. 500-1500) thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history::NHDJ European history: medieval period, middle ages |
| topic_facet | Women's & gender studies Literature: history & criticism Comparative & cultural studies through literature Cultural & intellectual history (c. 500-1500) thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history::NHDJ European history: medieval period, middle ages |
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