{"product_id":"law-and-consent-hardback","title":"Law and Consent - Hardback","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","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45583861874926,"sku":"9781138612501","price":227.2,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9781138612501.jpg?v=1721103517","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/law-and-consent-hardback","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}