Consent

by Pamela Haag

Book Overview

Whom, over the past two centuries, has society construed as sexual "victims"? Where and when did the notion of consent--so crucial for law and politics today--emerge? In this brilliantly insightful work, Pamela Susan Haag traces the evolution of public wisdom on some of society's most private and controversial matters. At once an investigation of social history, popular culture, legal doctrine, and political theory, her book shows how in contemporary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080142142X
• ISBN13: 9780801421426
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher