She Said No : The Gender of Consent from Fairy Tales to #MeToo (Early Modern Feminisms)

She Said NO argues that the simple word "no" reveals a profound gender divide in authority over who gets to speak, and who gets to refuse. Through an archival recovery of female refusal in French literature, it reframes consent and critiques the patriarchal foundations of the literary canon, offering a new feminist way of reading texts of the Grand Siècle.