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Feminist Frictions:
Title IX

Digital Archive:
Consent and Sexual Violence in Broader Perspective

Accompanying Catharine R. Stimpson’s Feminist Frictions essay, “Dereliction, Due Process, and Decorum: The Crises of Title IX“

Other Digital Archive Pages:

Primary & Legal Documentation | Retrospectives & Overviews | Legal Theory & Implementation | Sexual Violence & Title IX | Gender Inclusion & Title IX | Sports & Title IX | Teachable Signs Articles

Theorizing Consent

O’Sullivan, Lucia F., and Elizabeth Rice Allgeier. “Feigning Sexual Desire: Consenting to Unwanted Sexual Activity in Heterosexual Dating Relationships.” The Journal of Sex Research 35, no. 3 (August 1, 1998): 234–43.

Cowling, Mark, and Paul Reynolds. “The Quality of Consent: Sexual Consent, Culture, Communication, Knowledge and Ethics.” In Making Sense of Sexual Consent. Routledge, 2004.

Philadelphoff-Puren, Nina. “The Mark of Refusal: Sexual Violence and the Politics of Recontextualization.” Feminist Theory 5, no. 3 (December 1, 2004): 243–56.

Little, Nicholas J. “From No Means No to Only Yes Means Yes: The Rational Results of an Affirmative Consent Standard in Rape Law.” Vanderbilt Law Review 58 (2005): 1321.

Humphreys, Terry. “Perceptions of Sexual Consent: The Impact of Relationship History and Gender.” The Journal of Sex Research 44, no. 4 (October 26, 2007): 307–15.

McRobbie, Angela. “Top Girls?: Young Women and the Post-Feminist Sexual Contract.” Cultural Studies 21, no. 4–5 (July 1, 2007): 718–37.

Butler, Judith. “Sexual Consent: Some Thoughts on Psychoanalysis and Law.” Columbia Journal of Gender and the Law 21 (2011): 3.

Taylor, Chloë. “Disciplinary Relations/Sexual Relations: Feminist and Foucauldian Reflections on Professor–Student Sex.” Hypatia 26, no. 1 (ed 2011): 187–206.

Burkett, Melissa, and Karine Hamilton. “Postfeminist Sexual Agency: Young Women’s Negotiations of Sexual Consent.” Sexualities 15, no. 7 (October 1, 2012): 815–33.

Fischel, Joseph. “Against Nature, against Consent: A Sexual Politics of Debility.” Differences 24, no. 1 (May 1, 2013): 55–103.


Hessell-Gordon, Sherelle. “The Privilege of Consent.” TEDx Talks, 2014.

Cahill, Ann J. “Recognition, Desire, and Unjust Sex.” Hypatia 29, no. 2 (2014): 303–19.

Fahs, Breanne. “‘Freedom to’ and ‘Freedom from’: A New Vision for Sex-Positive Politics.” Sexualities 17, no. 3 (March 1, 2014): 267–90.

Pollitt, Katha. “Why Is ‘Yes Means Yes’ So Misunderstood?” The Nation, October 8, 2014.


Rockstar Dinosaur Pirate Princess, “Still Don’t Understand Consent? Imagine You’re Making a Cup of Tea,”  2015.

Fischel, Joseph J., and Hilary R. O’Connell. “Disabling Consent, or Reconstructing Sexual Autonomy.” Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 30, no. 2 (September 1, 2015): 428–528.

Bay-Cheng, Laina Y., and Anne E. Bruns. “Yes, But: Young Women’s Views of Unwanted Sex at the Intersection of Gender and Class.” Psychology of Women Quarterly 40, no. 4 (December 1, 2016): 504–17.

Gruber, Aya. “Not Affirmative Consent.” University of the Pacific Law Review 47 (2016): 683.

Cahill, Ann J. “Unjust Sex vs. Rape.” Hypatia 31, no. 4 (2016): 746–61.

Cunniff Gilson, Erinn. “Vulnerability and Victimization: Rethinking Key Concepts in Feminist Discourses on Sexual Violence.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 42, no. 1 (September 1, 2016): 71–98.

Halley, Janet. “The Move to Affirmative Consent.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 42, no. 1 (September 1, 2016): 257–79.


Schmidt, Natassja and Lea Roth. “Cultivating a Culture of Consent.” TEDx Talks, 2017.

Curtis, Jena Nicols, and Susan Burnett. “Affirmative Consent: What Do College Student Leaders Think About ‘Yes Means Yes’ as the Standard for Sexual Behavior?” American Journal of Sexuality Education 12, no. 3 (July 3, 2017): 201–14.

Elise Radina, M. “Sisterhood and Sexual Assault: Engaging Sorority Members in Dialogue, Critical Analysis, and Feminist Praxis: Sisterhood and Sexual Assault.” Family Relations 66, no. 1 (February 2017): 126–38. https://doi.org/10.1111/fare.12234

Fenner, Lydia. “Sexual Consent as a Scientific Subject: A Literature Review.” American Journal of Sexuality Education12, no. 4 (October 2, 2017): 451–71.

Fischel, Joseph J. “Horse F#$@ing and the Limits of Consent: What Broad City Teaches Us About Sexual Violence.” Studies in Gender and Sexuality 18, no. 1 (January 2, 2017): 31–34.

Gialopsos, Brooke Miller. “Sexual Violence in Academia: Policy, Theory, and Prevention Considerations.” Journal of School Violence 16, no. 2 (April 3, 2017): 141–47.

Graham, Laurie M., Sarah Treves-Kagan, Erin P. Magee, Stephanie M. DeLong, Olivia S. Ashley, Rebecca J. Macy, Sandra L. Martin, Kathryn E. Moracco, and J. Michael Bowling. “Sexual Assault Policies and Consent Definitions: A Nationally Representative Investigation of U.S. Colleges and Universities.” Journal of School Violence 16, no. 3 (July 3, 2017): 243–58.

Hust, Stacey J. T., Kathleen Boyce Rodgers, and Benjamin Bayly. “Scripting Sexual Consent: Internalized Traditional Sexual Scripts and Sexual Consent Expectancies Among College Students.” Family Relations 66, no. 1 (February 2017): 197–210.

Mott, Margaret. “The Seduction of Consent.” In Street-Level Sovereignty: The Intersection of Space and Law, edited by Sarah Marusek and John Brigham. Lexington Books, 2017.

Rossetto, Kelly R., and Andrew C. Tollison. “Feminist Agency, Sexual Scripts, and Sexual Violence: Developing a Model for Postgendered Family Communication: Feminist Agency, Sexual Scripts, and Sexual Violence.” Family Relations 66, no. 1 (February 2017): 61–74.

Brady, Geraldine, Pam Lowe, Geraldine Brown, Jane Osmond, and Michelle Newman. “‘All in All It Is Just a Judgement Call’: Issues Surrounding Sexual Consent in Young People’s Heterosexual Encounters.” Journal of Youth Studies 21, no. 1 (January 2, 2018): 35–50.

Cense, Marianne, Laina Bay-Cheng, and Lieke Dijk. “‘Do I Score Points If I Say “No”?’: Negotiating Sexual Boundaries in a Changing Normative Landscape.” Journal of Gender-Based Violence 2 (June 29, 2018): 277–91.

Freitas, Donna. A Culture of Consent: How to Fight Sexual Assault on Campus. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2018.

Grigoriadis, Vanessa. Blurred Lines: Rethinking Sex, Power, and Consent on Campus, 2018.

Harris, Jasmine E. “Sexual Consent and Disability.” New York University Law Review 93 (2018): 480.

Jozkowski, Kristen N., Jimmie Manning, and Mary Hunt. “Sexual Consent In and Out of the Bedroom: Disjunctive Views of Heterosexual College Students.” Women’s Studies in Communication 41, no. 2 (April 3, 2018): 117–39.

Burgin, Rachael. “Persistent Narratives of Force and Resistance: Affirmative Consent as Law Reform.” The British Journal of Criminology 59, no. 2 (February 15, 2019): 296–314.

Gruber, Aya. “The Complexity of College Consent.” In Adjudicating Campus Sexual Misconduct and Assault: Controversies and Challenges, edited by Claire Renzetti and Diane Follingstad. Cognella Academic Publishing, 2019.

Fischel, Joseph. 2019. Screw Consent: A Better Politics of Sexual Justice. University of California Press.

Righi, Mary Kirtley, Katherine W. Bogen, Caroline Kuo, and Lindsay M. Orchowski. “A Qualitative Analysis of Beliefs About Sexual Consent Among High School Students.” Journal of Interpersonal Violence, April 11, 2019.

Sikka, Tina. “What to Do about #MeToo? Consent, Autonomy, and Restorative Justice: A Case Study.” Sexuality, Gender & Policy, 2021.

McGuire, Laura. “Creating Cultures of Consent: Teaching and Modeling Consent for the Next Generation.” Ms. Magazine, May 3, 2021.


Pfeiffer, Sacha. “The Promise And Problems Of ‘Yes Means Yes’ In Campus Sex Assaults.” WBUR, 2014.


Friedman, Jaclyn. “Beyond Consent: Sexual Liberation, Sexual Violence and Human Rights.” Part of the Castle Lecture Series in the Great Hall of Durham Castle, Durham University. 2014.

Violence and Harassment in Institutions


Retro Report. “Why Hasn’t Sexual Harassment Disappeared?” The New York Times, 2017.

Carbin, Maria. “Towards a Politics of Uncertainty: Difficulties of Naming the Relationship between Gender and Violence.” Journal of Gender-Based Violence 5, no. 1 (February 1, 2021): 95–109.

Hawkesworth, Mary. “Theorizing Gender Power and Gendered Institutions: Sexual Harassment and Resistance to Feminist Activism.” In Gender, Considered: Feminist Reflections Across the US Social Sciences, edited by Sarah Fenstermaker and Abigail J. Stewart, 77–105. Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020.

Hurtado, Sarah Socorro. “How Neoliberalism Shapes the Role and Responsibility of Faculty Members for Eliminating Sexual Violence.” The Journal of Higher Education 0, no. 0 (October 5, 2020): 1–24.

Driessen, Molly C. “Campus Sexual Assault Policies: A Feminist Policy Analysis Framework.” Affilia 35, no. 3 (August 1, 2020): 397–412.


MacKinnon, Catharine A., and Durba Mitra.“Ask a Feminist: Sexual Harassment in the Age of #MeToo.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 44, no. 4(May 21, 2019): 1027–43.


Musser, Tilly.“The Widespread Effects of Sexual Assault.” TEDx Talks, 2019.

Spencer, Chelsea, Allen Mallory, Michelle Toews, Sandra Stith, and Leila Wood. “Why Sexual Assault Survivors Do Not Report to Universities: A Feminist Analysis: Reporting Sexual Assault.” Family Relations 66, no. 1 (February 2017): 166–79.

Gruber, Aya. “#MeToo and Mass Incarceration.” Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 17 (2019): 275.

Boyle, Kaitlin M., Ashley Barr, and Jody Clay-Warner. “The Effects of Feminist Mobilization and Women’s Status on Universities’ Reporting of Rape.” Journal of School Violence 16, no. 3 (July 3, 2017): 317–30.

Green, Matthew. “Before #MeToo: The Long Struggle Against Sexual Harassment at Work (with Interactive Timeline and Lesson Plan).” KQED, December 14, 2017.

Kaukinen, Catherine E., Michelle Hughes Miller, and Ráchael A. Powers, eds. Addressing Violence against Women on College Campuses. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple University Press, 2017.

Haaken, Janice. “Many Mornings After: Campus Sexual Assault and Feminist Politics.” Family Relations 66, no. 1 (2017): 17–28.

Heer, Brooke de, and Lynn Jones. “Measuring Sexual Violence on Campus: Climate Surveys and Vulnerable Groups.” Journal of School Violence 16, no. 2 (April 3, 2017): 207–21.

Perkins, Wendy, and Jessica Warner. “Sexual Violence Response and Prevention: Studies of Campus Policies and Practices.” Journal of School Violence 16, no. 3 (July 3, 2017): 237–42.

Richards, Tara N., Kathryn A. Branch, Ruth E. Fleury-Steiner, and Katherine Kafonek. “A Feminist Analysis of Campus Sexual Assault Policies: Results from a National Sample.” Family Relations 66, no. 1 (February 2017): 104–15.

Raymond, Claire, and Sarah Corse. “A Distorting Mirror: Educational Trajectory After College Sexual Assault.” Feminist Studies 44, no. 2 (2018): 464–90.

Sales, Jessica, and Kathleen Krause. “Schools Must Include Faculty and Staff in Sexual Violence Prevention Efforts.” Journal of American College Health 65, no. 8 (November 17, 2017): 585–87.

Patton, Lori D., and Nadrea R. Njoku. “Theorizing Black Women’s Experiences with Institution-Sanctioned Violence: A #BlackLivesMatter Imperative toward Black Liberation on Campus.” International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 32, no. 9 (October 21, 2019): 1162–82.


Israel, Tamora. “The New Rules for Consent in the Post-#MeToo Era.” TEDx Talks, 2019.


Kimbrough, Felicia. “Coercion, Consent, and Sexual Violence.” TEDx Talks, 2020.

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