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Haag examines the nineteenth-century obsession with the perils of seduction and twentieth-century disputes over white slavery, arranged marriages, interfacial relationships, and rape. The history of heterosexual modernity and identity must, she argues, be viewed as a crucial component of a much larger historical narrative -- that of the ways in which individual freedom and citizenship have been continually redefined in American liberal culture. She illuminates the development of liberalism from its "classic" stage that ended after the post-Reconstruction era to a "modern" version that came to fruition with the judicial acceptance of the right to privacy. Finally, she shows how debates over the meaning of heterosexual consent and violence contributed to this transformation.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Cultural studies

• Full title: Consent
• Subtitle: Sexual Rights and the Transformation of American Liberalism
• Author: Pamela Susan Haag
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9780801485183
• ISBN: 0801485185
• ID: 04707784
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Weight: 397 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 156 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 29. July 1999

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