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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

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 …