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Contesting Femicide: Feminism and the Power of Law Revisited

Contesting Femicide: Feminism and the Power of Law Revisited

Author: Adrian Howe
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781138478626
Published In: August 2018
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Focusing on femicide, this book provides a contemporary re-evaluation of Carol Smart’s innovative approach to the law question as first outlined in her ground-breaking book, Feminism and the Power of Law (Routledge 1989).

Smart advocated turning to the legal domain not so much for demanding law reforms as construing it as a site on which to contest gender and more particularly, gendered constructions of women’s experiences. Over the last 30 to 40 years, feminist law scholars and activists have launched scathing trans-jurisdictional critiques of the operation of provocation defences in hundreds of femicide cases.

The evidence unearthed by feminist scholars that these defences operate in profoundly sexed ways is unequivocal. Accordingly, femicide cases have become critically important sites for feminist engagement and intervention across numerous jurisdictions.

Exploring an area of criminal law that was not one of Smart’s own focal concerns, this book both honours and extends Smart’s work by approaching femicide as a site of engagement and counter-discourse that calls into question hegemonic representations of gendered relationships.

Femicide cases thus provide a way to continue the endlessly valuable discursive work Smart advocated and practised in other fields of law: both in articulating alternative accounts of gendered relationships and in challenging law’s power to disqualify women’s experiences of violence while privileging men’s feelings and rights.

Acknowledgements

Preface Carol Smart

Notes on contributors

Introduction

Part 1 Criminal Law Reform Case Studies

Provocation by ‘Sexual Infidelity’─ Diminishing Returns? — Adrian Howe

Feminist Dilemmas with Law Reform ─ Victoria, Australia

— Danielle Tyson and Bronwyn Naylor

Criminalising Femicide in Latin American Countries: Legal Power Working For Women? — Patsili Toledo

Part 2 Proliferating Sites of Feminist Legal Intervention

‘Being Wrought, Perplexed in the Extreme’ ─ Othello and his Syndrome

— Adrian Howe