Dubcon: Fanfiction, Power, and Sexual Consent

by	Milena Popova

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How the treatment of sexual consent in erotic fanfiction functions as a form of cultural activism.Sexual consent is–at best–a contested topic in Western societies and cultures. The #MeToo movement has brought public attention to issues of sexual consent, revealing the endemic nature of sexual violence. Feminist academic approaches to sexual violence and consent are diverse and multidisciplinary–and yet consent itself is significantly undertheorized. In Dubcon, Milena Popova points to a community that has been considering issues of sex, power, and consent for many years: writers and readers of fanfiction. Their nuanced engagement with sexual consent, Popova argues, can shed light on these issues in ways not available to either academia or journalism. Popova explains that the term “dubcon” (short for “dubious consent”) was coined by the fanfiction community to make visible the gray areas between rape and consent–for example, in situations where the distribution of power may limit an individual’s ability to give meaningful consent to sex. Popova offers a close reading of three fanfiction stories in the Omegaverse genre, examines the “arranged marriage” trope, and discusses the fanfiction community’s response when a sports star who was a leading character in RPF (real person fiction) was accused of rape. Proposing that fanfiction offers a powerful discursive resistance on issues of rape and consent that challenges dominant discourses about gender, romance, sexuality, and consent, Popova shows that fanfiction functions as a form of cultural activism.

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Weight	0.5 kg
Dimensions	1.8 × 15.9 × 23.7 cm
PubliCanadation City/Country	USA
by	Milena Popova
Format	Hardback
Language	English
Pages	216
Publisher	MIT Press
Year Published	2021-10-5
Imprint	The MIT Press
ISBN 10	0262045966
About The Author	Milena Popova is an independent scholar, activist, and consultant working on culture and sexual consent and the author of Sexual Consent, a volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series.
	"In the new book, Dubcon: Fanfiction, Power, and Sexual Consent, writer Milena Popova shows how these fanfiction sub-communities play with power rather than eliminate it. Stories of “dubious consent, or “dub con,” as it’s called, recognize that inequality sometimes implicates consent, making it not-so-clear-cut, 'not a matter of ‘yes’ or ‘no.’” In the real world, writes Popova, it’s questionable whether “partners are free to know and express their own desires and limits without any external pressures or power structures.'"—Jezebel
Other text	“Dubcon is a cracking read and an important contribution to current considerations of consent. Popova brings the marginalized wisdom of fanfic writers to the fore, providing fascinating examples of how they’ve grappled with such questions in their creative work and communities.”—Meg-John Barker, author of Sexuality: A Graphic Guide, Mediated Intimacy, and Enjoy Sex (How, When and IF You Want To) “In Dubcon, Milena Popova looks at fandom as an engine of feminist thought. While other works treat fanfiction as media criticism, Popova shows how fandom’s artworks result in new thinking about issues of sexual agency and consent. A must-read.”—Francesca Coppa, Professor of English and Director of Women’s and Gender Studies, Muhlenberg College; author of The Fanfiction Reader: Folk Tales for the Digital Age “Milena Popova offers nuanced analysis of issues of sexual violence, rape culture, and sexual consent as they are explored in Omegaverse fanfictions and fandom. More than just a book about fanfiction, Dubcon is a persuasive contribution to ongoing debates about sex.”—Clarissa Smith, Professor, Northumbria University, UK; coeditor of Porn Studies
Table Of Content	1 Introduction 12 Thinking the Unthinkable 15Interlude: What We Talk about when we Talk about Fanfiction 313 "Dogfuck Rapeworld": Sexual Scripts and Consent in the Omegaverse 354 Rewriting the Romance: Emotion Work and Consent in Arranged-Marriage Fanfiction 635 Blurred Lines: From Fiction to Real Life 916 "Tab A, Slot B": Lived Experience and Knowledges of Consent 1177 "Living Our Values": A Praxis of Consent 141Epilogue 165Acknowledgments 177Notes 179Index 203

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