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- Feminist legal theories and harm (2)
- Public international law; sexual violence; feminist aesthetics; Sarah Kane (1)
- Responsibility for historical harms (1)
- Stolen Generations; responsibility; law and history; Alexis Wright (1)
- Tort law; feminist legal studies; Virginia Woolf; feminist ethics; responsibility (1)
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Towards A Feminist Aesthetic Of Justice: Sarah Kane’S Blasted As Theorisation Of The Representation Of Sexual Violence In International Law, Honni Van Rijswijk
Towards A Feminist Aesthetic Of Justice: Sarah Kane’S Blasted As Theorisation Of The Representation Of Sexual Violence In International Law, Honni Van Rijswijk
Honni van Rijswijk
An ongoing question in feminist studies is whether there is such a thing as a legal feminist aesthetic. Many feminists argue that an aesthetic based on prescriptive or normative theories of form, derived from feminist politics, is an ‘impossibility’. We need to analyse the context and particularity of each form, and examine its political and cultural effects. While there is no particular form that can, a priori, be designated feminist, we can talk meaningfully about practices of representation, and methodologies, as being feminist or otherwise. This essay seeks to re-animate questions concerning the relationship between feminisms and representation, asking what …
Neighbourly Injuries: Proximity In Tort Law And Virginia Woolf's Theory Of Suffering, Honni Van Rijswijk
Neighbourly Injuries: Proximity In Tort Law And Virginia Woolf's Theory Of Suffering, Honni Van Rijswijk
Honni van Rijswijk
2012 marks the 80th anniversary of Donoghue v Stevenson, a case that is frequently cited as the starting-point for a genealogy of negligence. This genealogy starts with the figure of the neighbour, from which, as Jane Stapleton eloquently describes, a ‘‘golden thread’’ of vulnerability runs into the present (Stapleton 2004, 135). This essay examines the harms made visible and invisible through the neighbour figure, and compares the law’s framework to Virginia Woolf’s subtle re-imagining and theorisation of responsibility in her novel Mrs. Dalloway (1925). I argue that Woolf critiques and supplements the law’s representations of suffering. Woolf was interested in …
Stories Of The Nation’S Continuing Past: Responsibility For Historical Injuries In Australian Law And Alexis Wright’S Carpentaria, Honni Van Rijswijk
Stories Of The Nation’S Continuing Past: Responsibility For Historical Injuries In Australian Law And Alexis Wright’S Carpentaria, Honni Van Rijswijk
Honni van Rijswijk
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