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For decades, feminists have been educating young people about healthy sexual interactions, promoting the benefits of affirmative consent. College students know that “Yes means yes!” Yet rates of sexual assault on college campuses remain stable. What’s going on? Despite concerted affirmative consent campaigns, coercive sexual intimacy and sexual assault persist, with some students (mostly men) still forcing sex on their partners—“taking it” from them. Facing ubiquitous sexual pressure, young people often relent to unwanted sex and “just take it.” Outsiders pass judgement on victim/survivors, demanding, “It’s just sex! Shut up and take it!” Survivors—despite their trauma—resist, “taking back” bodily empowerment.

In Exploiting, Enduring, and Resisting Ambiguous Sexual Consent in the Grey Area: Taking It, Kristen Myers and Patricia Wallace conduct an intersectional analysis of data provided by a diverse group of college students to explore these four meanings of “taking it.” They contextualize their analysis, examining the impact of sexual education in the U.S. as well as laws and policies aimed at reducing sexual assault. Using both sociological and social psychological lenses, they seek to illuminate the grey area surrounding sexual consent. The authors’ goal is to help spur changes in culture, practices, rules, and infrastructure to ultimately reduce sexual violence and increase sexual autonomy for all people.



Table of Contents:

Artist Statement
Prologue
Chapter 1: I Didn’t Mean to Make you Uncomfortable
Chapter 2: Core Concepts: The Building Blocks
Chapter 3: Sexual (Mis)education
Chapter 4: Regulating Sex
Chapter 5: Sex in the Grey Area
Chapter 6: Taking it: Exercising Power through Sexual Coercion and Assault
Chapter 7: Taking It: Enduring Unwanted Sex and Normalizing Coercion
Chapter 8: Taking It: Silencing Victim/Survivors
Chapter 9: Taking It: Reclaiming Sexual Agency and Power
Chapter 10: Illuminating/Eliminating the Grey Area
Appendix
Bibliography
About the Authors



About the Author :

Kristen Myers is professor of sociology at East Carolina University.

Patricia Wallace (1970 - 2025) was assistant director of research compliance, integrity, and safety at Northern Illinois University where she also taught as an adjunct professor in the Department of Psychology.



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"This is a book for everyone who knows someone dating, whether in college or not, and definitely for anyone in college. Myers and Wallace spotlight the grey area between consent and sexual coercion. They highlight the causes and consequences of just and unjust sex. Best of all, they show that individual strategies are good but not enough and push us all to think about how to end the gender inequality that spawns the grey area that undercuts women’s sexual autonomy. May every university give a copy to its entering class."


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781666948264
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 288
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1666948268
  • Publisher Date: 30 Apr 2026
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Taking It


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