Tina Sikka's book explores the contradictions and tensions in debates about sex, consent, feminism, justice, law, and gender relations, drawing on cases of Avital Ronell, Aziz Ansari, Jian Ghomeshi, Harvey Weinstein, and Louis CK. She proposes legislative and policy recommendations and examines the cultural changes needed to retain a progressive conception of sexual relations and consent.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 264 pages
Publication date: 31 August 2023
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Increasingly fraught debates about sex, consent, feminism, justice, law, and gender relations have taken center stage in academic, journalistic, and social media circles in recent years. This has resulted in a myriad of new theories, debates, and mediated movements, including #MeToo and #TimesUp. In this book, Tina Sikka explores many of the contradictions and tensions that make up these debates and movements. She looks in particular at those that draw together contemporary understandings of justice, violence, consent, pleasure, and desire. Drawing on the cases of Avital Ronell, Aziz Ansari, Jian Ghomeshi, Harvey Weinstein, and Louis CK, she applies historical, explanatory, diagnostic, and solutions-based tools to unpack two debates in particular: contemporary sexual norms with regards to what is permissible and desirable sexual behavior, and what constitutes justice in relation to gender-based sexual violence. Ultimately, Sikka proposes concrete legislative and policy recommendations and examines the necessary cultural changes needed to retain a progressive conception of sexual relations and consent.

Increasingly Fraught Debates about Sex, Consent, Feminism, Justice, Law, and Gender Relations

In recent years, debates about sex, consent, feminism, justice, law, and gender relations have become increasingly fraught, taking center stage in academic, journalistic, and social media circles. This has led to a myriad of new theories, debates, and mediated movements, including #MeToo and #TimesUp. Tina Sikka's book explores the contradictions and tensions that make up these debates and movements, focusing on those that draw together contemporary understandings of justice, violence, consent, pleasure, and desire. Drawing on the cases of Avital Ronell, Aziz Ansari, Jian Ghomeshi, Harvey Weinstein, and Louis CK, Sikka applies historical, explanatory, diagnostic, and solutions-based tools to unpack two debates in particular: contemporary sexual norms with regards to what is permissible and desirable sexual behavior, and what constitutes justice in relation to gender-based sexual violence. Ultimately, Sikka proposes concrete legislative and policy recommendations and examines the necessary cultural changes needed to retain a progressive conception of sexual relations and consent.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781474479219