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An inappropriate bond between the preadolescent daughter of a famous novelist and a rising 1970s London composer twenty years her senior intensifies into a predatory affair, in a tale told from three perspectives.
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Lands, Bodies, and the Meaning(s) of Consent in Recent Writing by Indigenous Women and Two-Spirit Authors
This article examines the concept of consent and its uses in global contexts such as the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and in local contexts specific to contemporary Canada. It examines how consent has often been wielded to serve settler interests to the detriment of Indigenous people, particularly concerning resource extraction and land theft. It then considers some of the ways discourses of consent related to environmental and sexual violence overlap in Indigenous writing. I argue that taking a closer look at fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by Indigenous Women and Two-Spirit authors Helen Knott, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, and Tunchai (T’áncháy) Redvers reveals useful ways to challenge settler ideas of consent premised on capitalist accumulation. In turn, these writers’ works present reformulations of consent that might better protect Indigenous lives and lands through strengthening kinship and governance, and by entrenching resistance to external encroachment when necessary.
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\Hot-for-Teacher\
In this article I explore the highly problematic but wildly acclaimed romantic relationship between Aria Montgomery, a high school junior, and her English teacher Ezra Fitz in the television series Pretty Little Liars. This partnership normalizes gendered power imbalances often common to heterosexual partnerships, yet fervent fans have supported the duo enthusiastically, dubbing the couple #Ezria in blogs and social media. As we know, much research shows that along with unintended pregnancy, young girls who are victims of child sexual abuse by adult males suffer from depression. These outcomes are not shown in Pretty Little Liars: the series ends with Aria marrying her teacher in an example of a happily-ever- after ending, thereby reinforcing postfeminist ideas that Aria’s self-efficacy has never been compromised. I argue that in the era of #Metoo, the exploration of power in heterosexual romantic relationships on television shows aimed at adolescent girl audiences is a site for critical analysis.
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\Play me false\: Rape, Race, and Conquest in \The Tempest\
Gonzalo's ideal commonwealth provides a counterdiscourse, alerting the audience that the same acts may be interpreted from different perspectives, grounded on distinct visions of human nature and political origins.3 Constance Jordan provides an elegant example of how such different perspectives operate in the play when she argues that the contradiction between natural and civil worlds in The Tempest can best be understood in the context of the late Elizabethan Aristotelian revival.4 Aristotle had devised a \"philosophical fiction\" of the \"naturally bestial man\" against which the citizen could be defined. [...]the presumptive family that Prospero attempted to create on the island is transposed to the political realm, in which Africa and Europe are now bound to one another through marriage, collapsing the sexual and social contracts into one another in a way that belies their mutual origin in forms of consensual domination.
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Retributive and Restorative Justice in Kristin Cashore's Graceling Trilogy
[...]critics tend to focus on realist novels, overlooking depictions of sexual assault in young adult fantasy. Because many young adult texts about sexual violence go so far as to exclude the rapist from the narrative, they \"lack an appropriate outlet for blame and therefore create rape spaces of female bodies. \"64 However, even by suggesting that Leck's various victims begin by making lists of what Leck has stolen, the resistance group helps give Monseans a starting point. Because the truthseekers function outside the scope of the official legal system, Cashore also models a way in which everyday citizens can begin to develop a system of restorative justice without the cooperation and support of the government. Since most of these revelations come not from the guilty but from their victims, progressing from accusation to a system of restorative justice is difficult—if not impossible—since restorative justice requires the guilty party to first admit their wrongdoing. According to the Prison Policy Initiative, \"The American criminal justice system holds almost 2.3 million people in 1,719 state prisons, 102 federal prisons, 1,852 juvenile correctional facilities, 3,163 local jails, and 80 Indian Country jails as well as in military prisons, immigration detention facilities, civil commitment centers, state psychiatric hospitals, and prisons in the U.S. territories\" (Peter Wagner and Wendy Sawyer, \"Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie in 2018,\" The Prison Policy Initiative, 14 Mar. 2018, https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2018.html).
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NONBINDING BONDAGE
To the shock of critics, Fifty Shades of Grey has become a cultural phenomenon, sweeping from fan-fiction websites to bestseller lists and garnering a multimillion-dollar movie deal. In the narrative that has spawned over a hundred million copies, a naive female coed sparks the interest of a handsome magnate who takes the heroine (and ideally the reader) on a journey of sexual awakening. The hero, a self-described \"Dominant,\" introduces the virginal heroine not only to sex but to the practice of BDSM, a compound acronym that connotes sexual interactions involving bondage/discipline, domination/submission, and sadism/masochism. From his \"Red Room of Pain,\" filled with \"ropes, chains, and glinting shackles,\" the hero shows the heroine how to be a \"Submissive,\" experiencing sexual pleasure by yielding to acts of domination and control within the bounds of a negotiated contract.
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