Remnants of Resistance: Care Means Being Present
March 14, 2025
As part of the One Institute's Circa Queer Histories Festival, CSUN's University
Library and Queer Studies Program have partnered to produce a second season
of the Remnants of Resistance podcast. Episodes feature interviews with CSUN
faculty, and will delve into unique and hidden queer stories uncovered by their
research.
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About the Episode
Join Heidi Schumacher and Ellen Jarosz as they interview Dr. David Leitch about his recent
article “Toward a Culture of Care and Consent.”
About the Guest
David G. Leitch is an associate professor of political science at California State University - Northridge. His background is in political theory, and his current research examines sex law in the United States; his most recent article, "Towards a Culture of Care and Consent," appears in Sexuality and Culture. He is currently working on projects in Second Wave feminism and contemporary consent culture, and plural marriage, both as queer practice and as liberal accommodation. Previous work focused on Mark Twain, the intellectual history of Lev Vygotsky, and conservative jurisprudence.
More Reading
- Elizabeth Brake. Minimizing Marriage: Marriage, Morality, and the Law. New York:
Oxford University Press, 2012. Find it at CSUN | Buy a copy - Joseph J. Fischel. Screw Consent: A Better Politics of Sexual Justice. Oakland, CA:
University of California Press, 2019. Find it at CSUN | Buy a copy - Catharine A. MacKinnon. Women’s Lives, Men’s Laws. Cambridge, MA: Belknap, 2007.
Find it at CSUN | Buy a copy - Ronald C. Den Otter. In Defense of Plural Marriage. New York: Cambridge University
Press, 2015. Find it in your local library | Buy a copy - Carole Pateman. The Sexual Contract. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1988. Find
it at CSUN | Buy a copy - Amia Srinivasan. The Right to Sex. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021. Find it at CSUN | Buy a copy
- Jonathan Turley. “An Unholy Union: Same Sex Marriage and the Use of Governmental
Programs to Penalize Religious Groups with Unpopular Practices,” in Douglas Laycock, et
al, eds. Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: Emerging Conflicts. Lanham, MD:
Rowman & Littlefield, 2008. Find it in your local library | Buy a copy - Williams, D.J., et al. “From ‘SSC’ and ‘RACK’ to the ‘4Cs’: Introducing a New Framework for
Negotiating BDSM Participation.” Electronic Journal of Human Sexuality 17 (2014).
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271854517_From_SSC_and_RACK_to_the_4Cs_Introducing_a_New_Framework_for_Negotiating_BDSM_Participation
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