Choice and Consent: Feminist Engagements with Law and Subjectivity - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415574463 ISBN 13: 9780415574464

Publisher: Routledge-Cavendish, 2009

Synopsis

This current and timely volume presents new thinking and new directions in feminist legal scholarship. Rethinking key concepts in legal feminism, Cowan and Hunter provide a unique examination of key socio-legal concepts in law, jurisprudence and legal and political theory.

Written by an international cast of contributors, offering different cultural perspectives as well as doctrinal and theoretical knowledge, this collection of essays presents a dialogue between different feminist positions and approaches to a common theme.

It addresses a range of questions, including:

• Can 'consent' be rethought and infused with different meanings in a post-liberal feminist politics?
• Can the concepts of 'choice' and 'consent' have consistent meanings and functions between different areas of law, or whether they prove to be highly contingent when viewed across the broad field of law.

Exploring the deeply gendered concepts of ‘choice’ and ‘consent’ and examining the philosophical and jurisprudential issues surrounding them as well as how ‘choice’ and ‘consent’ operate in particular areas of law, including criminal law, medical law, constitutional law, employment law, family law and civil procedure, this volume is a key resource for postgraduate law students studying jurisprudence.

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About the Author

Rosemary Hunter is Professor of Law at the University of Kent, UK and Sharon Cowan is a lecturer in law at the School of Law at Edinburgh University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge-Cavendish
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415574463
• ISBN 13: 9780415574464
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Hunter Rosemary, Cowan Sharon