1st Edition

Choice and Consent Feminist Engagements with Law and Subjectivity

Edited By Rosemary Hunter, Sharon Cowan Copyright 2007
192 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

192 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

192 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

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... Read more
Introduction: Historicizing Choice and Consent  Part 1: Theorizing Choice and Consent: Women's Autonomy  Caught between the Public and the Private: Can Family Law Escape the Father?  Cogito ergo sum never Brought Anyone into the World: The Politics of Consent.  Freedom and Capacity to Make a Choice: Reframing of the Concept of Consent  Part 2: Operationalizing Choice and Consent: Stories of Mistaken Consent  Without Consent: Trafficking in Women.  The Choice is Yours, or is it?  Girl Children and Consent to Medical Treatment.  The Personal is Economic: Equality, Federalism and Choice in the Maternity and Parental Leave Debate.  Consent in Violent Relationships

Biography

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.