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Law's Cut on the Body of Human Rights - Female Circumcision, Torture and Sacred Flesh (Paperback)
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Law's Cut on the Body of Human Rights - Female Circumcision, Torture and Sacred Flesh (Paperback)
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In Australia, the US, England, Scotland, Italy, France and in Egypt
there have been repetitive calls to legislate against the practices
of female circumcision described as female genital mutilation. But
in western countries where anti-female genital mutilation
legislation has been passed there has been little or no
consultation with the communities in which the practices occur:
documents are published only in English, and community responses
are ignored or simply deemed biased or irrelevant. Opportunities
for dialogue quickly turn into opportunities for education and
legislation about the unacceptability of the practices. But why are
communities denied their capacity to speak and influence political
opinion and legal decision making? Why in an era of human rights,
which heralds the importance of self-determination, freedom of
expression and women's participation in political arenas, are women
from these communities unable to engage in dialogue on this
practice? Law's Cut on the Body of Human Rights considers how such
assertive legislative responses, and this lack of curiosity and
consultation with communities, points to a particular liberal
investment the practices called female genital mutilation and what
they signify. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, Juliet Rogers
examines the language of recent statutes and, where relevant, some
of the accompanying policies and broader media debates, Female
genital mutilation, she argues, elicits such a singular legal
response insofar as it embodies that subjectivity against which the
very subject of liberal law is imagined - and only imagined - to
exist: in a state of non-mutilation, non-prohibition or, in a
psychoanalytic idiom, non-castration.
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