Law and Consent: Contesting the Common Sense

by Karla M O'Regan

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367785633
• ISBN13: 9780367785635
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"