Expressions of interest are sought for contributions to a planned special issue devoted to the topic of ‘Consent’. It offers a feminist examination of consent, considers what consent is, and the advantages and challenges offered by the concept of affirmative consent.
We seek contributions from across disciplines to examine theoretical concepts of consent in law, medicine, and other cultural domains. We are also interested in how consent plays out in practice, including its socio-legal meanings amongst diverse stakeholders. This extends to its place in online environments.
By considering consent through the lens of multiple disciplines, this special issue aims to interrogate the many assumptions held about consent, allowing us to reconfigure the ways in which feminists might imagine consent in the future.
Potential areas for consideration include but are not limited to:
- How we might imagine and reimagine a feminist vision of consent
- The shifting meanings and interpretations of ‘consent’, in the present, past and future
- Understandings of ‘affirmative consent’ in law and/or culture
- Challenges of working with a model of ‘affirmative consent’
- Indigenous knowledges of consent
- Feminist and survivor-focused law reform around consent
- Queer and Trans politics of consent
- Feminist interpretations of violence and consent
- Consent and sex education
- Demands for information about consent by young people
- Fear and consent
- Informed consent and familial/domestic abuse
- Consent and intimate partner violence
- Consent and reproductive coercion
- Medicine and consent
- Consent and sex work
- Consent in the Global South
- Anti-carceral feminism and consent
- Consent debates and knowledge in media and popular culture
- Consent, action and activism for a post- #MeToo world
- Consent in contemporary politics
