Consent in the Presence of Force Sefika Kumral From the sprawling remnants of

From the sprawling remnants of the Soviet empire to the southern tip of Africa

and emerging disorders and viruses

until recently little known outside South Africa

Dennis Dunaway

Consent in the Presence of Force Sefika Kumral From the sprawling remnants ofIn 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