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Law and Consent - Softcover

O'Regan, Karla

 
9780367785635: Law and Consent
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0367785633 ISBN 13: 9780367785635
Publisher: Routledge, 2021

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2021
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0367785633
ISBN 13 
9780367785635
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
224