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Sexuality Beyond Consent by Avgi Saketopoulou – book cover

Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia (Sexual Cultures)

By Avgi Saketopoulou

General Nonfiction

"Sexuality Beyond Consent makes a counter-intuitive claim: trauma discourse, especially when it comes to to racial and sexual trauma, is stalled by our fixation on preventing or healing injury. Saketopoulou offers a robust alternative, conjugated through the perversity of queer…

Release Date
2023
Length
271 pages
Publisher
NYU Press
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Our Review

"Sexuality Beyond Consent makes a counter-intuitive claim: trauma discourse, especially when it comes to to racial and sexual trauma, is stalled by our fixation on preventing or healing injury. Saketopoulou offers a robust alternative, conjugated through the perversity of queer desire, racial difference, and aesthetic experience"–