Sexual Consent

ISBN-13: 9780367317928 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 200 str.

David Archard

Opis

A popular belief is that whatever takes place in private between consenting adults should be allowed. This is the first book to offer a systematic philosophical examination of what might be meant by consent and what role it should play in the context of sexual activity.Investigating the adequacy of standard accounts of consent, the book criticizes

Spis treści

1 Questions of Consent, 2 Sexual Consent, 3 Sexual Consensuality, 4 Real Consent, 5 Consensuality and Permissibility, 6 Gendered Consent, 7 The Limits of Consensuality I: Incest, Prostitution, and Sado-masochism, 8 The Limits of Consensuality II: The Age of Sexual Consent, 9 The Limits of Consensuality III: Rape, 10 Conclusion

O autorze

David Archard is reader in the Department of Moral Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews. He is the author of Marxism and Existentialism: The Political Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1980), Consciousness and the Unconscious (1984), and Children, Rights and Childhood (1993).