Campuses of Consent

This new book for scholars and university administratorsoffers a provocative critique of sexual justice Language and policy inhigher education around the concept of consent. Complicating the idea that consent is plain common sense,Campuses of Consent showshow normative and inaccurate concepts about gender, gender identity, and sexuality erase queer or trans students' experiencesandperpetuate narrow, regressive gender norms and individualist frameworks for understanding violence.Theresa A. Kulbaga and Leland G. Spencer prove that consent in higher education cannot be meaningfully separated from larger issues of institutional and structural power and oppression. While sexual assault advocacy campaigns, such as It's On Us, federal legislation from Title IX to the Clery Act, and more recent affirmative-consent Measures tend to construct consent in individualist terms, as something "given" or "received" by individuals, the authors imagine consent as something that can be constructed systemically and institutionally: in classrooms, campus communication, and shared campus spaces.