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Law and Consent: Contesting the Common Sense

by Karla O'Regan
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780367785635
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 224
  • Original Price: GBP 48.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 344 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Social History, Jurisprudence, and Legal History

Consent is used in many different social and legal contexts with the pervasive



understanding that it is, and has always been, about autonomy - but has it?



Beginning with an overview of consent's role in law today, this book investigates



the doctrine's inseparable association with personal autonomy and its effect



in producing both idealised and demonised forms of personhood and agency.



This prompts a search for alternative understandings of consent. Through an



exploration of sexual offences in Antiquity, medical practice in the Middle Ages,



and the regulation of bodily harm on the present-day sports field, this book



demonstrates that, in contrast to its common sense story of autonomy, consent



more often operates as an act of submission than as a form of personal freedom



or agency. The book explores the implications of this counter-narrative for the



law's contemporary uses of consent, arguing that the kind of freedom consent is



meant to enact might be foreclosed by the very frame in which we think about



autonomy itself.



This book will be of interest to scholars of many aspects of law, history, and



feminism as well as students of criminal law, bioethics, and political theory.

Karla M. O'Regan is an Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at St. Thomas University, Canada.

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