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Joy of Consent: A Philosophy of Good Sex [Pehme köide]

  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 272 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 210x140x17 mm, kaal: 284 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 09-Sep-2025
  • Kirjastus: Harvard University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0674301528
  • ISBN-13: 9780674301528
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 272 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 210x140x17 mm, kaal: 284 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 09-Sep-2025
  • Kirjastus: Harvard University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0674301528
  • ISBN-13: 9780674301528
In the #MeToo age, US debate over licit sex has split into two camps: one insists that consent solves the problem of sexual coercion, while the other equates sexual pleasure with the patriarchal erotics of silence and mystery. Manon Garcia rejects both positions, arguing that consent is a faulty legal threshold but essential to the joy of good sex.

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“Timely and captivating…advances a powerful critique against the contemporary discourse on consent…offers sharp observations throughout.” —Times Literary Supplement

“Thought-provoking…Garcia argues that we need an emancipatory sexual politics based on a deeper understanding of how social norms generate sexual injustices. Ultimately, she advocates a contextually sensitive approach to consent, a notion that responds to the specifics of sexual situations and is relational in nature.” —Los Angeles Review of Books

“A brilliant interrogation of the complexities of consent. Manon Garcia shows us that consent can be liberating—for reasons we might not have expected—in enabling good, joyful sex. A must-read.” —Kate Manne, author or Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women

Consent has become the ultimate answer to problems of sexual harassment and violence: as long as all parties agree to sex, the act is legitimate. Critics reply that the awkwardness of confirming consent robs sex of its sexiness. Supporters answer that opposing the consent regime entails defending a patriarchal erotics of silence and mystery.

Philosopher Manon Garcia upends the debate, reframing consent as an ally of pleasure rather than a legalistic killjoy. In doing so, she rejects conventional wisdom on all sides. Garcia challenges simplistic equations between consent and noncoercion and shows that consent alone doesn’t make sex licit. Drawing on sources from Kantian ethics to kink practices, she offers an alternative framework grounded in commitments to autonomy and dignity. And if consent provides a rickety legal standard, Garcia argues that it is essential to the realization of intimate desire.

By appreciating consent as a source of sexual flourishing rather than a legal litmus test, The Joy of Consent adds a fresh voice to the struggle for freedom from sexist violence.

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Thought-provokingGarcia argues that we need an emancipatory sexual politics based on a deeper understanding of how social norms generate sexual injustices. Ultimately, she advocates a contextually sensitive approach to consent, a notion that responds to the specifics of sexual situations and is relational in nature. -- Anna Katharina Schaffner * Los Angeles Review of Books * Timely and captivatingadvances a powerful critique against the contemporary discourse on consentoffers sharp observations throughout. -- Geertje Bol * Times Literary Supplement * From the bedroom to the classroom to the courtroom, consent is a key term in our contemporary sexual ethics. In this timely reexamination, Manon Garcia deftly reveals the hidden complexities of consent and proposes how to reconceptualize it as a tool of liberation. -- Amia Srinivasan, author of The Right to Sex A brilliant interrogation of the complexities of consent. Manon Garcia shows us that consent can be liberatingfor reasons we might not have expectedin enabling good, joyful sex. A must-read. -- Kate Manne, author of Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women Not since Catharine MacKinnon has a thinker so lucidly and compellingly challenged the way we think about womens sexual oppression. Manon Garcia spells out for us what we already should have known: that our current understanding of consent is not doing the work that we need it to do and that we have the power to ameliorate it. This book is no less than a blueprint for a new feminist revolution. -- Nancy Bauer, author of How to Do Things with Pornography

Manon Garcia is the author of We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Womens Lives. A Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and a junior professor at Freie Universität Berlin, she has taught at the University of Chicago and Yale University. She received the Prix des Rencontres Philosophiques de Monaco for the best book of philosophy published in France in 2022.