Dubcon
Fanfiction, Power, and Sexual Consent
$74.41
- Hardcover
216 pages
- Release Date
29 October 2021
Summary
Sexual consent is a contested topic in Western societies. The #MeToo movement has highlighted issues of sexual consent and the prevalence of sexual violence. While feminist academic approaches to sexual violence and consent are diverse, consent itself remains significantly undertheorized.
In Dubcon, Milena Popova examines how the fanfiction community, comprised of writers and readers, has long engaged with issues of sex, power, and consent. Popova argues that their nuanced ap…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262045964 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262045966 |
| Author: | Milena Popova |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 216 |
| Release Date: | 29 October 2021 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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Critics Review
“In the new book, Dubcon: Fanfiction, Power, and Sexual Consent, writer Milena Popova shows how these fanfiction sub-communities play with power rather than eliminate it. Stories of “dubious consent, or “dub con,” as it’s called, recognize that inequality sometimes implicates consent, making it not-so-clear-cut, ‘not a matter of ‘yes’ or ‘no.’” In the real world, writes Popova, it’s questionable whether “partners are free to know and express their own desires and limits without any external pressures or power structures.’”
—Jezebel
About The Author
Milena Popova
Milena Popova is an independent scholar, activist, and consultant working on culture and sexual consent and the author of Sexual Consent, a volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series.
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