{"product_id":"law-and-consent-karla-oregan-9781138612501","title":"Law and Consent: Contesting the Common Sense","description":"\u003cp\u003eConsent is used in many different social and legal contexts with the pervasive\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eunderstanding that it is, and has always been, about autonomy - but has it?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeginning with an overview of consent's role in law today, this book investigates\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe doctrine's inseparable association with personal autonomy and its effect\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein producing both idealised and demonised forms of personhood and agency.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis prompts a search for alternative understandings of consent. Through an\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eexploration of sexual offences in Antiquity, medical practice in the Middle Ages, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand the regulation of bodily harm on the present-day sports field, this book\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edemonstrates that, in contrast to its common sense story of autonomy, consent\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emore often operates as an act of submission than as a form of personal freedom\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eor agency. The book explores the implications of this counter-narrative for the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elaw's contemporary uses of consent, arguing that the kind of freedom consent is\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emeant to enact might be foreclosed by the very frame in which we think about\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eautonomy itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book will be of interest to scholars of many aspects of law, history, and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efeminism as well as students of criminal law, bioethics, and political theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Karla O'Regan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1138612502\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781138612501\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/16\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 238\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.30w x 0.80d","brand":"Karla O'Regan","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48113281728767,"sku":"9781138612501","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c5edc62e-3114-49a5-9929-6bc19dc2eccd.jpg?v=1769614064","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/law-and-consent-karla-oregan-9781138612501","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}