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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... hero promises to do anything and all within his considerable power to make the heroine happy and satisfy her every desire . In this way , satisfaction of female desire is made a condition for sexual exchange in women's romance ; the hero's ...
... hero promises to do anything and all within his considerable power to make the heroine happy and satisfy her every desire . In this way , satisfaction of female desire is made a condition for sexual exchange in women's romance ; the hero's ...
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... hero decides the terms for heterosexual exchange . The power of the masculine subject and the consequent imbalance or inequity in gender relations is normalised , moreover , as a consequence of fixed and " natural " gender and sexual ...
... hero decides the terms for heterosexual exchange . The power of the masculine subject and the consequent imbalance or inequity in gender relations is normalised , moreover , as a consequence of fixed and " natural " gender and sexual ...
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... hero , although she still refuses to settle for less than a relationship that recognises and values her individuality as well as her sexuality / gender . In rape law , however , there is no such latitude for the Victim to object to or ...
... hero , although she still refuses to settle for less than a relationship that recognises and values her individuality as well as her sexuality / gender . In rape law , however , there is no such latitude for the Victim to object to or ...
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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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Choice and Consent: Feminist Engagements with Law and Subjectivity Rosemary C. Hunter,Sharon Cowan Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2007 |