Consent in the Presence of Force Sefika Kumral Dennis Dunaway

Dennis Dunaway

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Consent in the Presence of Force Sefika Kumral Dennis DunawayIn histories of enslavement and in Black women's history, coercion looms large in any discussion of sex and sexuality. At a time when sexual violence against Black women was virtually unregulated even normalized a vast economy developed specifically to sell the sexual labor of Black women. In this vividly rendered book, Emily A. Owens wrestles with the question of why white men paid notoriously high prices to gain sexual access to the bodies of