{"product_id":"courting-disaster","title":"Courting Disaster","description":"Condition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781526188854\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2025\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat do #MeToo and Jane Austen have in common? More than you might think.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEver since the novel was invented, women have used it as a platform for sharing ideas about sexual consent. Dr Zoe McGee reveals how Jane Austen, Frances Burney and their now-overlooked contemporaries used their stories to try to change society's mind about rape culture and to reassure survivors they were not alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCourting Disaster\u003c\/i\u003e takes a timely deep-dive into a series of classic novels, comparing them with both historic court records and current events to show that our arguments about consent are not a new phenomenon. With the wit and wryness of a courtship novel, McGee reads between the lines to unveil a quiet feminist movement that still resonates today. Because every novel about marriage is also a novel about consent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn an era that's clamouring for a return to the values of the past, \u003ci\u003eCourting Disaster\u003c\/i\u003e asks what that would really mean, and whether anyone actually liked it back then anyway...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ALLIANCE DIST - SF","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41859706912901,"sku":"PR433468","price":66.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0213\/3637\/files\/image_TTG79JCQQW5H.jpg?v=1789106667","url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.com.au\/products\/courting-disaster","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}