Digital Archive:
Agency, Coercion, and Sexual Violence
Accompanying Janet Halley's Currents essay, "The Move to Affirmative Consent"
Other Digital Archive Pages:
Affirmative Consent | Campus Cultures & Title IX | Consent & the Law | Campaigns & Resources | Teachable Signs Articles
Online Articles
Sara Alcid, Navigating Consent: Debunking the ‘Gray Area’ Myth, Everyday Feminism, 2013
karnythia, On Consent, Sex Positivity, & Cultures of Color after Colonization, The Angry Black Woman, 2015
Dorian Lynskey, Blurred Lines: The Most Controversial Song of the Decade, The Guardian, 2015
Charlotte Shane, “Getting Away’ with Hating It": Consent in the Context of Sex Work, Tits and Sass, 2015
Video and Film
Jennifer Baumgardner, It Was Rape, 2013
Katha Pollitt and Jennifer Baumgardner, Q&A on New Documentary It Was Rape, Bitch Media, 2013
Aishah Shahidah Simmons, NO! The Rape Documentary, 2006
therapelady, Sh*t Everybody Says to Rape Victims, 2012 (via Colorlines)
Scheherazade Tillet, Story of a Rape Survivor (SOARS), 2009
Books
Susan Brownmiller, Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape, 1975, Ballantine Books
Emilie Buchwald, Pamela Fletcher, and Martha Roth, eds., Transforming a Rape Culture, Milkweed Editions, 2004
Susan Estrich, Real Rape, Harvard University Press, 1988
Kate Harding, Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture--and What We Can Do about It, Da Capo Lifelong Books, 2015
Shireen J. Jejeebhoy, Iqbal Shah, and Shyam Thapa, eds., Sex Without Consent: Young People in Developing Countries, Zed Books, 2013
Robin Warshaw, I Never Called It Rape: The Ms. Report on Recognizing, Fighting, and Surviving Date and Acquaintance Rape, Harper Perennial, 1994
Katie Cappiello and Meg McInerney, SLUT: A Play and Guidebook for Combating Sexism and Sexual Violence, The Feminist Press, 2015
Accompanying website: StopSlut.org
Slutwalk Manchester-"Still not asking for it." Photo by Man Alive! on Flickr. Reproduced under License CC BY 2.0
Academic Articles
Kathryn Abrams, Sex Wars Redux: Agency and Coercion in Feminist Legal Theory, Columbia Law Review, 1995
Melissa Burkett and Karine Hamilton, Postfeminist Sexual Agency: Young Women’s Negotiations of Sexual Consent, Sexualities, 2012
Angela Y. Davis, 1981, Rape, Racism, and the Capitalist Setting, The Black Scholar, 1981
Ellen Carol Dubois, and Linda Gordon, Seeking Ecstasy on the Battlefield: Danger and Pleasure in Nineteenth-Century Feminist Sexual Thought, Feminist Studies, 1983
Joseph Fischel, Against Nature, against Consent: A Sexual Politics of Debility, differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, 2013
Heather R. Hlavka, Normalizing Sexual Violence: Young Women Account for Harassment and Abuse, Gender & Society, 2014
Terry Humphreys and Ed Herold, Sexual Consent in Heterosexual Relationships: Development of a New Measure, Sex Roles, 2007
Jennifer Katz and Vanessa Tirone, Going Along with It: Sexually Coercive Partner Behavior Predicts Dating Women’s Compliance with Unwanted Sex, Violence Against Women, 2010
Shalini Puri, Race, Rape, and Representation: Indo-Caribbean Women and Cultural Nationalism, Cultural Critique, 1997
Carol Queen and Lynn Comella, The Necessary Revolution: Sex-Positive Feminism in the Post-Barnard Era, The Communication Review, 2008
K. G. Santhya, Nicole Haberland, F. Ram, R. K. Sinha, and S. K. Mohanty, Consent and Coercion: Examining Unwanted Sex among Married Young Women in India, International Family Planning Perspectives, 2007
Creative Works
Lena Dunham, "Barry," in Not That Kind of Girl, Random House, 2014
Ana Mendieta - New Museum Digital Archive
Favianna Rodriguez, The Pussy Power Imaginary, 2015
See also: Julie Zeilinger, Emma Sulkowicz Isn't the Only Artist Taking On Sexual Assault. Here Are 5 Others, Mic, 2015