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.

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.

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