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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... understand that rape law and romance fiction justify the regulatory powers they exercise in relation to heterosexual conduct by reference to the vulnerability or disadvantage of the feminine subject of exchange . Her vulnera- bility is ...
... understand that rape law and romance fiction justify the regulatory powers they exercise in relation to heterosexual conduct by reference to the vulnerability or disadvantage of the feminine subject of exchange . Her vulnera- bility is ...
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... as articulated in romance fiction , as well as its conditions , as enforced through the applications of rape law . Only then , I suggest , can we understand why normative femininity is so resilient and how it 7 INTRODUCTION.
... as articulated in romance fiction , as well as its conditions , as enforced through the applications of rape law . Only then , I suggest , can we understand why normative femininity is so resilient and how it 7 INTRODUCTION.
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Feminism, Rape Law, and Romance Fiction Wendy Larcombe. understand why normative femininity is so resilient and how it manages to gain the endorsement of significant numbers of women . The overarching argument developed in this book is ...
Feminism, Rape Law, and Romance Fiction Wendy Larcombe. understand why normative femininity is so resilient and how it manages to gain the endorsement of significant numbers of women . The overarching argument developed in this book is ...
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... understand more fully the various appli- cations and effects of gendering discourses and the gendered subject positions that mediate our engagements with them . This study contributes to that understanding by analysing the textual ...
... understand more fully the various appli- cations and effects of gendering discourses and the gendered subject positions that mediate our engagements with them . This study contributes to that understanding by analysing the textual ...
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... understands the failure of the criminal law's prohibition of rape as consequent upon the legal reproduction of an outdated and inappropriate norm of possessive heterosexuality . However , it must not be thought that the failings of rape ...
... understands the failure of the criminal law's prohibition of rape as consequent upon the legal reproduction of an outdated and inappropriate norm of possessive heterosexuality . However , it must not be thought that the failings of rape ...
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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accused appeal argue attempts Australian basis become changes chapters complainant's consent consequence construction consumer contemporary continue conviction course criminal law critics cultural defence desire effect engagements evidence example experience explains fact false false complaint fantasy female feminine subjectivity feminist gender genre Harlequin hero hero's heroine heroine's heterosexual exchange ideal individual interests issues judges jury knowledge law and romance law's limited means mind narrative nature non-consent normative object particular person pleasures political popular romance position practice Press problem produced promises prosecution provides publishers questions rape complainant rape law rape victim reading reason reform relations relationship representation represented reproduce requirement resistance respect romance fiction romance reader satisfaction satisfied sense sexual assault sexual penetration social specific standard story successful suggest takes testimony texts true understand victim violence woman women women's romance Writing
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Choice and Consent: Feminist Engagements with Law and Subjectivity Rosemary C. Hunter,Sharon Cowan Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2007 |