Date rape and consent /
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| Author / Creator: | Cowling, Mark. |
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| Imprint: | Aldershot ; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate, 1998. |
| Description: | viii, 154 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3455281 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Stranger rape and date rape. How rape is dealt with in Britain. Theories of rape. Legal definitions of rape. Rape as a moral category
- 3. Date rape: the evidence. Forms of rape excluded by the definition used. Two descriptions of date rape. Introduction to the surveys. US surveys. Canadian surveys. British studies. Date rape: the 'prison works' solution. Issues raised by the survey literature on date rape
- 4. Date rape and the concept of consent. A general concept of consent? Aspects of sexual consent i.) knowing what you consent to. Aspects of sexual consent ii.) intending to consent. Aspects of sexual consent iii.) the communication of consent. Communicative sexuality. Communicative sexuality criticised. Aspects of sexual consent iv.) a background of free choice
- 5. Sex on a sloping playing field. Sex in a patriarchal society: rival theories. Male and female diversity and sexual bargaining
- 6. Conclusion. Philosophical issues. Legal issues. Issues for further research.