text:  and a professor emeritus at the University of Florida in Gainesville. The questions I just asked are among the many questions she asks herself in her new memoir, Consent. It's in part a reflection and critique of her previous memoir, Half a Life, which was published in the mid-1990s when she was in her mid-40s. In Half a Life, she described herself as the aggressor, the one who initiated the first kiss and started the relationship.