'Freedom and capacity to make a choice': A feminist analysis of consent in the criminal law of rape

Sexuality and the Law: Feminist Engagements

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 51-71

  Cowan, Sharon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84904773877     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203945094     Document Type: Chapter

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