Compelling Engagements: Feminism, Rape Law, and Romance FictionFederation Press, 2005 - 170 oldal After decades of rape law reform, it is still being argued that the criminal justice system fails rape victims, that too few cases are prosecuted and too few prosecutions result in conviction. Compelling Engagements is a ground-breaking work which investigates the narratives of rape law and of romance fiction, and explores the outmoded and strikingly similar depictions of their normative female subjects. These are women who are not only vulnerable but also evidently worthy of the protections or rewards promised: punishment of the rapist or the hero's love. Larcombe's analysis explores: the definitions of "rape" in the criminal law and "romance" in Harlequin Mills and Boon fiction; the feminine subjects represented in the texts of rape law and romance fiction; the feminised subject positions the texts produce: the rape complainant and the romance reader; particular fictionalisations of the rape complainant and the romance reader: the false rape complainant and the ideal romance consumer; and how these fictionalisations serve the interests of the criminal justice system and the romance publishing industry. Larcombe shows how the legal construction of gender and subjectivity in rape law is still working to disempower victims. She suggests feminism's failure to accommodate women's investment in heroines of romance fiction has limited their effectiveness in transforming rape law. Compelling Engagements is an original and engaging analysis, and fascinating reading for anyone who deals with rape as part of the criminal justice system. |
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... fact that one might have expected the extensive feminist engagement with these texts over past decades to have made more of a difference . Numerous feminist critics have challenged and critiqued the representations of gender and ...
... fact that one might have expected the extensive feminist engagement with these texts over past decades to have made more of a difference . Numerous feminist critics have challenged and critiqued the representations of gender and ...
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... fact that a person did not say or do anything to indicate free agreement to a sexual act is normally enough to show that the act took place without that person's free agreement " . 7 Contemporary legislation also typically includes a ...
... fact that a person did not say or do anything to indicate free agreement to a sexual act is normally enough to show that the act took place without that person's free agreement " . 7 Contemporary legislation also typically includes a ...
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... fact whereby the accused honestly thought or believed that consent existed where in reality none did is a consistently available defence to rape.15 The notorious case of DPP v Morgan [ 1976 ] AC 182 stands as authority for the rule that ...
... fact whereby the accused honestly thought or believed that consent existed where in reality none did is a consistently available defence to rape.15 The notorious case of DPP v Morgan [ 1976 ] AC 182 stands as authority for the rule that ...
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... penetration desirable and legal except when accompanied by the stipulated mental states . Significantly , and just as paradoxically , the fact that the victim cannot qualify her 23 CONSENT AND INTENT : GENDERING SUBJECTIVITY IN RAPE LAW.
... penetration desirable and legal except when accompanied by the stipulated mental states . Significantly , and just as paradoxically , the fact that the victim cannot qualify her 23 CONSENT AND INTENT : GENDERING SUBJECTIVITY IN RAPE LAW.
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Feminism, Rape Law, and Romance Fiction Wendy Larcombe. paradoxically , the fact that the victim cannot qualify her desire for sex with the accused in relation to the circumstance of his mental attitude means that , effectively , there ...
Feminism, Rape Law, and Romance Fiction Wendy Larcombe. paradoxically , the fact that the victim cannot qualify her desire for sex with the accused in relation to the circumstance of his mental attitude means that , effectively , there ...
Tartalomjegyzék
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Desire and Love Gendering Subjectivity | 34 |
The Fortitude of Heroines | 59 |
Heroines and the InSecurity | 78 |
Fear and Hope | 97 |
Preferred Readers and Other Romances | 115 |
Compelling Engagements | 135 |
Index | 161 |
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Hivatkozások erre a könyvre
Choice and Consent: Feminist Engagements with Law and Subjectivity Rosemary C. Hunter,Sharon Cowan Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2007 |