{"product_id":"9780520964723","title":"Consensual Violence: Sex, Sports, and the Politics of Injury","description":"In this novel approach to understanding consent, Jill D. Weinberg presents two case studies of activities in which participants engage in violent acts: competitive mixed martial arts (MMA) and sexual sadism and masochism (BDSM). Participants in both cases assent to injury and thereby engage in a form of social decriminalization, using the language of consent to render their actions legally and socially tolerable. Yet, these activities are treated differently under criminal battery law: sports, including MMA, are generally absolved from the charge of criminal battery, whereas BDSM often represents a violation of criminal battery law.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Using interviews and ethnographic observation, Weinberg argues that where law authorizes a person’s consent to an activity, as in MMA, consent is not meaningfully constructed or regulated by the participants themselves. In contrast, where law prohibits a person’s consent to an activity, as in BDSM, participants actively construct and regulate consent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A synthesis of criminal law and ethnography, \u003ci\u003eConsensual Violence \u003c\/i\u003eis a fascinating account of how consent is framed among participants engaged in violent acts and lays the groundwork for a sociological understanding of the process of decriminalization.","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120112517360,"sku":"9780520964723","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780520964723_p0.jpg?v=1763709980","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780520964723","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}