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New Directions in Sexual Violence Scholarship Law, Power and Change

Edited By Kate Gleeson, Yvette Russell Copyright 2023
286 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

286 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

286 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This edited collection brings together leading and emerging scholars in the important field of sexual violence scholarship. The last ten years have witnessed an international reckoning on sexual violence, typified in the mainstream imagination by the #MeToo movement, acknowledgement of the violence of university campus life, and the overdue recognition of the enduring harms of child... Read more

New Directions in Sexual Violence Scholarship: Law, Power and Change

Kate Gleeson and Yvette Russell

Part One: Reconsidering Power and Consent

1. Thinking beyond ‘cultural change’: towards a materialist theory of sexual violence prevention

Anna Hush

2. Consent, Coercive Circumstances and (Imbalances of) Power: Lessons from International Criminal Law

Eithne Dowds

3. Archetypal Sluts: Payment of Sex Workers as a Condition of Consent

Zahra Stardust and Hilary Caldwell

Part Two: Challenging the Colonial Order

4. Reading International Rape Law from the South

Louise du Toit

5. No Consent and No Disclosure: Black Australian Women and Sexual Violence

Tess Ryan

6. After Provocation: Reconciling the Legacy of the Homosexual Advance Defence in Occupied Australia

Kate Gleeson

Part Three: Reforming the Rape Trial

7. Sexual History Evidence in Review: Stasis in Constant Change

Joanne Conaghan and Yvette Russell

8. Mind the Gap: Implementing ‘Rape Shield’ Laws in Scottish Sexual Offences Trials

Sharon Cowan

9. Complainant Intoxication Evidence and Proof of Non-Consent in Australian Rape Trials: Insights from Appellate Court Decisions

Julia Quilter and Luke McNamara

10. "It Felt Like a Comma, Not a Full Stop": Complainers’ Experiences of the Not Proven Verdict within Scottish Rape Trials

Vanessa E. Munro

Part Four: Speaking Truth to Power

11. Beyond Speaking Out: #MeToo and the Limits of Narrative Politics

Tanya Serisier

12. New Materialism and Artful Interventions: Exploring the Affects of ‘Let’s Talk about Sexual Violence’

Anna Carline and Clare Gunby

13. Sex at the Workplace: Making Sexual Harassment Visible in Indonesian Businesses

Hendri Yulius Wijaya, Lany Harijanti, Maya Juwita, Nizma Fadila and Zelda Lupsita

Biography

Kate Gleeson is Associate Professor of Politics and Law at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.

Yvette Russell is Associate Professor of Law and Feminist Theory at the University of Bristol, UK.