Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia

by Avgi Saketopoulou

Book Overview

Radical alternatives to consent and trauma

Arguing that we have become culturally obsessed with healing trauma, Sexuality Beyond Consent calls attention to what traumatized subjects do with their pain. The erotics of racism offers a paradigmatic example of how what is proximal to violation may become an unexpected site of flourishing. Central to the transformational possibilities of trauma is a queer form of consent, limit...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479820253
• ISBN13: 9781479820252
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"