TY  - CHAP
AB  - The feminist critique of rape has been a vast and impressive exercise of interpretative activity: it has gripped existing concepts, practices and discourses and subjected them to reinterpretation and transformation. It has been trenchant, assiduous and generative. It has created new legal definitions of rape and modified the evidentiary requirements that define its borders; it has developed new procedural mechanisms and codes of speech during trials; it has multiplied ethico-political interpretations of sexual violence and excavated previously unauthorised forms of social knowledge. Most specifically, it has created new evaluations of rape in the service of a particular form of life; that is, one which cultivates the capacity of women to maximise their own powers of speech and desire.
VL  - 34
SN  - 978-1-84950-304-4, 978-0-76231-151-4/1059-4337
DO  - 10.1016/S1059-4337(04)34002-0
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/S1059-4337(04)34002-0
AU  - Philadelphoff-Puren Nina
ED  - Andrew Kenyon
ED  - Peter Rush
PY  - 2004
Y1  - 2004/01/01
TI  - 2. EXHIBITING THE HYMEN: THE BLANK PAGE BETWEEN LAW AND LITERATURE
T2  - Aesthetics of Law and Culture: Texts, Images, Screens
T3  - Studies in Law, Politics, and Society
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 33
EP  - 52
Y2  - 2024/09/21
ER  -