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Cefai, Sarah. 2024. He Said, She Said. European Journal of Cultural Studies, ISSN 1367-5494 [Article] (Forthcoming)

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In recent years popular feminist discourse has increasingly associated feminism with a cultural concept of consent. My reflection in this special section of Cultural Commons: ‘#(No)SeAcabó / It is (not) over’ edited by Sabrina Moro and Catherine Fowler discusses the Rubiales / Hermoso kiss through the lens of consent by enquiring into how the words “he said, she said” attend to particular kinds of gender injustice. I suggest that “he said, she said” acts as a form of representation that has the effect of reifying the cultural experience of nonconsent as an experience of relations of power. By critically assessing “he said, she said” as a narrative device we can further understand the role of representation in obscuring our encounter with and critical enquiry into the event, that I suggest we foreground in our discussions of what “she said”.

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Article

Keywords:

Consent; affect theory; feminism; narrative; mediation

Departments, Centres and Research Units:

Media, Communications and Cultural Studies

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