This volume argues that legislation on abortion, adultery, and rape has been central to the formation of the modern citizen. The author draws on rights literature, bio-political scholarship, and a gen
Westen (law, U. of Michigan) became engaged with the concept of consent during the middle 1980s with feminist critiques of rape laws. After analyzing the use of the term, and more importantly non-cons
Chapter 1 describes the event, which occurred in March 2006: Three Duke University lacrosse players "...were wrongly accused and indicted on charges of sexual assault for the gang rape of an exotic da
