1st Edition
Criminal Law, Feminism and Emotions Thinking through the Legal Unconscious
By Latika Vashist
Copyright 2025
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book critically engages criminal law issues relating to sexuality and violence in order to argue that an attention to emotions can produce a more nuanced, and more adequate, feminist account of legal subjectivity.
Although the relationship between law and feminism has resulted in a vast body of work, the issue of emotions has not been foregrounded in feminist legal scholarship in... Read more
1. The Limits of Nussbaum’s Conception of Emotions 2. Gendered Emotions in the Provocation Defence 3. Glimpses of our Darker Selves 4. Defamiliarizing the Sexual 5. Theorizing Sexual Consent 6. Sexuality and the Figure of the ‘Child’
Biography
Latika Vashist is Associate Professor at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi, India.
