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

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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’ 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, which I suggest we foreground in our discussions of what ‘she said’.

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Article

Identification Number (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494241270476

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Data sharing not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analysed during the current study.

Keywords:

Consent; affect theory; feminism; narrative; mediation

Departments, Centres and Research Units:

Media, Communications and Cultural Studies

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