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What Is Due To Others: Speaking And Signifying Subject(S) Of Rape Law, Penelope Pether
What Is Due To Others: Speaking And Signifying Subject(S) Of Rape Law, Penelope Pether
Penelope J Pether
Australian journalist Paul Sheehan's representation of the alleged and convicted immigrant Muslim/Arab rapists he demonises in Girls Like You, like his representation of the rape survivors in that text, has much to tell us about the law's production of rape law's speaking and signifying subjects, "real rape" victims and survivors, false accusers and perpetrators. This article uses a variety of texts, including Girls Like You, recent Australian rape law jurisprudence and legislative reform, texts involving two controversial recent US rape cases — one from Maryland and one from Nebraska — and a recent UK study on attrition in rape prosecutions, …
Editor’S Introduction, Symposium On Paul Rabinow’S “Prosperity, Amelioration, Flourishing: From A Logic Of Practical Judgment To Reconstruction: An Account Of His Work With Synberc", Penelope Pether
Penelope J Pether
This is the Editor's Introduction to a special written symposium on Paul Rabinow’s “Prosperity, Amelioration, Flourishing: From a Logic of Practical Judgment to Reconstruction” an account of the “anthropologist of reason’[s]” professional involvement with SynBERC, a critical institution in the field of synthetic biology, which latter, as Rabinow explains, “aims at nothing less than the (eventual) regulation of living organisms in a precise and standardized fashion according to instrumental norms.” Contributors to the symposium are Rabinow himself, Richard Mullender, Ruthann Robson, Ruth Miller, Jose Gabilondo, Pamela Bridgewater, Michael Moreland, David Caudill, and Gary Edmond and David Mercer. The essays collected …