Author: Howe Adrian
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
ISSN: 0966-3622
Source: Feminist Legal Studies, Vol.21, Iss.2, 2013-07, pp. : 141-161
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Abstract
This article explores the prospects and pitfalls faced by a feminist legal scholar wanting to set up a ‘sexual infidelity’ homicide public engagement project. Following Carol Smart’s suggestion that law is an important site of engagement, counter-discourse and critical feminist interventions, it argues that provocation by infidelity femicide cases are ideal sites for continuing the project of encouraging discursive struggle. The cases cry out for conversion into a critical, pedagogical means of mobilising consciousness about emotional excuses for violence against women.
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