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1 online resource |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Preamble: a chokehold -- Consensual violence and the politics of injury -- From acts to legitimacy: the path of social decriminalization -- Devising rules and norms, creating a culture of consent -- Enforcing and rationalizing rule violations -- Transforming consensual violence through a legal register -- The social embeddedness of consent -- Conclusion: consensual violence reimagined. |
| Summary |
"In this novel approach to understanding consent, Jill D. Weinberg features two case studies where groups engage in seemingly violent acts: competitive mixed martial arts and sexual sadomasochism. These activities are similar in that consenting to injury is central to the activity, and participants of both activities have to engage in a form of social decriminalization, leveraging the legal authority imbued in the language of consent as a way to render their activities legally and socially tolerable. Yet, these activities are treated differently under criminal battery law. Using interviews with participants and ethnographic observation, Weinberg argues that where law authorizes a person's consent to an activity, consent is not meaningfully regulated or constructed by the participants themselves. In contrast, where law prohibits a person's consent to an activity, participants actively construct and regulate consent. This difference demonstrates that law can make consent less consensual. Synthesizing criminal law and ethnography, Consensual Violence is a fascinating account of how consent gets created and carried out among participants and lays the groundwork for a sociology of consent and a more sociological understanding of processes of decriminalization."--Provided by publisher. |
| Note |
Title from PDF file title page (viewed 12 August 2016). |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Consent (Law) -- Case studies.
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Consent (Law) |
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Case studies.
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Sadomasochism -- Social aspects -- Case studies.
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Sadomasochism. |
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Social aspects. |
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Sadomasochism -- Law and legislation -- Case studies.
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Sadomasochism -- Law and legislation. |
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Mixed martial arts -- Social aspects -- Case studies.
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Mixed martial arts. |
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Mixed martial arts -- Law and legislation -- Case studies.
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Mixed martial arts -- Law and legislation. |
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Violence -- Social aspects -- Case studies.
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Violence -- Social aspects. |
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Violence. |
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Decriminalization -- Social aspects -- Case studies.
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Decriminalization. |
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Electronic books.
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SM. |
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Decriminalization. |
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Case studies.
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| Added Author |
University of California (System). Regents, sponsoring body.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Weinberg, Jill D. Consensual violence. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016] 9780520290655 (DLC) 2015048378 |
| ISBN |
9780520964723 (electronic book) |
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0520964721 (electronic book) |
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9780520290655 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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