Screw Consent

"Is consent the feminist holy grail to emancipated sex? This provocative new book argues "no" by focusing on what the politics of consent cannot teach us about the harm of harmful sex. With critical nuance and political nerve, Fischel demonstrates that the future of feminist sexual cultures lies in differentiating the legal utility of consent from feminist understandings of power, desire, and pleasure."--Robyn Wiegman, Duke University "Fischel wants everybody to have access to the joys of sex, including disabled people rarely acknowledged as the sexual beings we are. Undoing the hyperbolic expectation that consent will tell us everything we need to know about sex, Fischel agitates for 'more feminist and democratically hedonic' sexual cultures and more good sex. Sign me up!"--Christina Crosby, Wesleyan University