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'Making Sense of Sexual Consent'

A Two Day Conference at Edge Hill College, Ormskirk,
Lancs.
29th - 30th June 2000

Sexual consent has always been a controversial and
complex issue,  combining considerations of individual
judgement and  communication in societies
characterised by alternately  pathological and
prejudicial or ambiguous and contradictory sexual
values and bodies of knowledge. In recent years,
issues of sexual  consent have come to be seen as
increasingly difficult in both law  and politics, and
increasingly complex in the issues they raise for
commentators on and participants in consent decisions.


The organisers are Mark Cowling, author of Date Rape
and  Consent, and Paul Reynolds, author of various
papers on sexual  citizenship. Our intention is to
make this a working conference at  which the papers
are pre-circulated by email, and where publication  of
the edited collection on sexual consent follows
swiftly. The  organisers are currently in negotiation
to publish a collection of the  conference papers.

The cost of the conference will be about £60 for two
days including  one night’s bed and breakfast and
lunches. Additional nights will  cost £22.

Papers so far accepted include:

1.  Kate Cook, Campaign to End Rape

An assessment of the legal definition and
understanding of  consent in the current English
review of sexual offences law.

2.  Peter Sturman: Drug and Alcohol induced 'consent'.


Peter Sturman is a detective in the Metropolitan
police who has  been researching drug-assisted sexual
assault since 1998. His report  is due to be submitted
to the Home Office in April 2000.

3.  Fernne Brennan, Director of Criminal Law,
University of Essex

Sexual Consent and Ethnicity

Andrea Beckmann University of Lincoln and Humberside
‘Sexual Rights’ and ‘Sexual Responsibilities’ within
consensual  ‘SM’ practice

4.  Sara Hinchliffe University of Sussex
Feminism, civil liberty and rape law reform.

The paper looks at how far women’s agency is
compromised in  discussion of special measures to deal
with rape, and at how far  such measures are consonant
with civil liberties.

5.  Petra Boynton Department of Psychiatry and
Behavioural Sciences  Royal Free and University
College Medical School

Who wants to be a sex study participant?

6.  Matthew Waites, South Bank University
Towards a new paradigm for conceptualising age of
consent laws

7.  Allison Moore and Paul Reynolds (Edge Hill
College)
Feminist Approaches to Sexual Consent:
A Critical Assessment

8.  Mark Cowling, University of Teesside
Communicative Sexuality: A Critique

9.  Paul Reynolds CSSS, Edge Hill College

The Quality of Consent: A Critique of Communicative
Sexuality

10.  Gideon Calder Philosophy, Cardiff University

A critique of the poststructuralist approach to the
language of  sexual consent



11.  David Renton, Department of History, Edge Hill
College

Sex is Violence: A Critique of Susan Sontag


Arguably, the 1970s and 80s debate between feminists
and sado- masochists was misplaced. The overwhelming
majority of violent  sexual acts take place in the
context of heterosexual sex between  couples. This was
a point belatedly recognised in Britain with the
opening up of the definition of rape to include
marital sex. I will also  argue that Susan Sontag’s
assault on the sexualisation of violence  was

12.  Nafsika Athanassoulis  (University of Reading):

The Role of Consent in Sado-masochistic Practices

13.  Cecilia Blewer, Main Representative to the United
Nations, New York, Coalition Against Trafficking in
Women

Problematics of Consent in Prostitution and
Trafficking

14. Ulrika Andersson, Sweden

Rape and Consent or The unbounded body of the Law on
Rape

15.  Richard Hamilton,  School Of Philosophy,
Birkbeck College

How To Get Real About Rape

16.  Barbara Sullivan, Senior Lecturer in Politics,
Department of Government, University of Queensland

Rethinking Prostitution and ‘Consent’

17. Martin Taylor, De Montfort University, Leicester

Consent in Male Rape

18. John Gibbins, School of Social Sciences,
University of Teesside

Ethical Problems of Sexuality Research, using consent
to have images stored on one's computer as an
illustration.

19. Purna Sen, Director, Non-consensual Sex in
Marriage  Programme, CHANGE,  and Visiting Research
Fellow, Centre for the Study of Global Governance,
LSE:   'Marriage and Sexual Consent'

20. Helen Jones, Edge Hill University College,
Ormskirk:

Should the definition of rape move away from consent?

[For abstracts of the papers contact Mark Cowling at
the address below]

Edge Hill University College, Ormskirk
Making Sense of Sexual Consent Conference, 29-30 June
2000
Booking Form (Please Print off and
 send with cheque)

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Prices:
* Whole Conference (Registration, Access to papers on
internet, lunch both days, tea and coffee morning and
afternoon, bed and breakfast on night of 29th June in
en suite student accommodation       65 pounds
sterling

*Thursday 29th, no overnight accommodation        25
pounds sterling

*Friday 30th, no overnight accommodation       25
pounds sterling

*Extra Night Bed and Breakfast         22 pounds
sterling

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Please make cheques payable to: Edge Hill University
College

Please send booking forms to: Mark Cowling, School of
Social Sciences, University of Teesside,
Middlesbrough, Cleveland, TS1 3BA.
**Last Booking 15 June**

Contact information:  01642 342338 (Direct) 01642
218121 ex 2330 (School Office) 01642 281927(Home)
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Once we have received your cheque you should receive:
receipt; map and directions; password to conference
website; outline agenda.




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