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17Consent, Coercion, and Sexual AutonomyIn Keith Burgess-Jackson (ed.), A Most Detestable Crime: New Philosophical Essays on Rape, Oxford University Press. pp. 71-91. 1999.Feminist legal scholarship has questioned the usefulness of non-consent as a criterion for rape. Under conditions of generalized sexual oppression, consent may not be an adequate for absence of coercion. I defend this argument and propose that rape law reform can be usefully informed by state protection of workers in the capitalist labor market, where it is assumed that the parties occupy an unequal bargaining position
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372Prostitution, Sexual Autonomy, and Sex DiscriminationHypatia 26 (1). 2011.Feminist critics of the stigmatization of prostitution such as Martha Nussbaum and Sybil Schwarzenbach argue that the features of the practice do not, or at least need not, differ essentially from those of other more respected sorts of labor. I argue that even the least degraded forms of the current practice of prostitution remain objectionable on feminist grounds because patrons demand a semblance of sexual self-expression that engages discriminatory beliefs about women's sexuality
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Eric Gans, Signs of Paradox: Irony, Resentment, and Other Mimetic Structures Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 18 (3): 174-175. 1998.
Portland, Oregon, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Social and Political Philosophy |
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |
Continental Philosophy |