Buch, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 371 g
Contesting the Common Sense
Buch, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 371 g
ISBN: 978-0-367-78563-5
Verlag: Routledge
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 prompts a search for alternative understandings of consent. Through an
exploration of sexual offences in Antiquity, medical practice in the Middle Ages,
and the regulation of bodily harm on the present-day sports field, this book
demonstrates that, in contrast to its common sense story of autonomy, consent
more often operates as an act of submission than as a form of personal freedom
or agency. The book explores the implications of this counter-narrative for the
law’s contemporary uses of consent, arguing that the kind of freedom consent is
meant to enact might be foreclosed by the very frame in which we think about
autonomy itself.
This book will be of interest to scholars of many aspects of law, history, and
feminism as well as students of criminal law, bioethics, and political theory.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Law & Consent: A Tale of Contradictions
Consent’s Autonomy Story
Methodology: A Juridical Genealogy of Consent
Charting the Course: A Chapter Outline
Chapter 1: The Common Sense of consent
Mediated Magic: Paternalism and its Paradox
The Parameters of Consent: Productive Preconditions
Voluntariness
Knowledge
Rationality
Conceptualising the Common: Tacit consent & Intelligibility
Conclusion
Chapter 2: Ancient SEx
Regulating Sex Among the Ancients
Offences of hubris
Offences of bia/raptus
Offences of moicheia/stuprum
Ancient Outlaws: Unintelligible Acts
(Post)Modern Reflections
Conclusion
Chapter 3: Medieval Medicine
Medieval Medicine: A Monastic Enterprise
Regulating Access
Theory over Practice
Christian Alignment
Medieval Doctors & their Patients: A Match made in Heaven
the Medieval Doctor-Patient Relationship: ‘The Way, The Truth & the LIght’
Conclusion
Chapter 4: Modern Sport
Harmful Horseplay: Consent & Contact Sports
Foul Play: Fighting in Sports
‘No sissy stuff’: Harm & Hegemonic Masculinity in Sport
Capitalism with the Gloves off: Consent & Body Capital in Sport
Conclusion
Chapter 5: The Political Economy of Consent
Neoliberal Rationality: Touched by an Invisible Hand
The Market Rationality: An Origin-less Story
The Neoliberal Subject: A Normative Ontology
Consent within a Capitalist Logic: Revisiting Criminal & Medical Law
Social Utility in a Neoliberal World
The Capacity to Consent: An Act of Self-governance
Conclusion
Conclusion
Index
