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Law, Culture and the Figure of the Girl Genre and Gender Violence
By Honni van Rijswijk
Copyright 2025
164 Pages
by
Routledge
164 Pages
by
Routledge
164 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book argues for the critical potential of locating the girl as the subject-position and voice of legal critique.
Law’s imaginary is notoriously limited in its ways of thinking through and adjudicating gender violence. This book argues that ‘the girl’ is a key figure through which to understand, theorise, and challenge law’s relation to this violence. Law, Culture and the Figure of the... Read more
1: The Figure of the Girl 2: (Undoing) The Bildungsroman of Consent 3: Feminist Imaginaries of Justice: Forgiveness, Revenge, Tragedy, Contract? 4: Law and the Girl at the End of the World
Biography
Honni van Rijswijk is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia.
