Law and Consent

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