Consent : : Sexual Rights and the Transformation of American Liberalism / / Pamela Susan Haag.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Haag, Pamela Susan,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction: What Part of "No" Don't You Understand? --; Part I. Feudal to Classic Liberal Precedents --; 1. "Chastity Is Only Good for the Work It Can Do": Seduction, Consent and the Private Self --; 2. "Victim or Victimizer?" The Dilemma of Seduction in Classic Liberal Culture --; Part II. Classic Liberal to Modern Liberal Precedents --; 3. White Slavery or the Wages of Sin? The Reinvention of the Privacy and Sexual Violence in the Modern Liberal Context --; 4. "Alleged Husbands" and Bona Fide Cases: Arranged Marriage, Pure and Simple Consent, and the Modern Social Contract --; Part III. Modern Liberal Precedents --; 5. The First Sexual Revolution: Two Views --; 6. "Race Lust in Paradise" and "Sex Trouble:" Meanings of Sexual Liberty and Violence in the Early 1930s --; Epilogue --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501725401; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501725401
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Pamela Susan Haag.

Whom, over the past two centuries, has society construed as sexual "victims"? Where and when did the notion of consent—so crucial for law and politics today—emerge? In this brilliantly insightful work, Pamela Susan Haag traces the evolution of public wisdom on some of society's most private and controversial matters. At once an investigation of social history, popular culture, legal doctrine, and political theory, her book shows how in contemporary America the history of sexual rights is inextricably intertwined with that of liberalism. Haag examines the nineteenth-century obsession with the perils of seduction and twentieth-century disputes over white slavery, arranged marriages, interracial relationships, and rape. The history of heterosexual modernity and identity must, she argues, be viewed as a crucial component of a much larger historical narrative—that of the ways in which individual freedom and citizenship have been continually redefined in American liberal culture. She illuminates the development of liberalism from its "classic" stage that ended after the post-Reconstruction era to a "modern" version that came to fruition with the judicial acceptance of the right to privacy. Finally, she shows how debates over the meaning of heterosexual consent and violence contributed to this transformation.