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Law's Cut on the Body of Human Rights - Female Circumcision, Torture and Sacred Flesh (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,398
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Law's Cut on the Body of Human Rights - Female Circumcision, Torture and Sacred Flesh (Paperback): Juliet Rogers

Law's Cut on the Body of Human Rights - Female Circumcision, Torture and Sacred Flesh (Paperback)

Juliet Rogers

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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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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: May 2015
First published: 2013
Authors: Juliet Rogers
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-84114-6
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General
Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Foundations of law > General
Books > Law > English law > Private, property, family > Gender law
Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Social law > General
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Postmodernism > Structuralism, deconstruction, post-structuralism
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General
Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General
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LSN: 0-415-84114-3
Barcode: 9780415841146

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