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Law's Cut on the Body of Human Rights

Autor Juliet Rogers
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 mai 2015
Scenes of violence and incisions into the flesh inform the demand for law. The scene of little girls being held down in practices of female circumcision has been a defining and definitive image that demands the attention of human rights, and the intervention of law. But the investment in protecting women and little girls from such a cut is not all that it seems.Law's Cut on the Body of Human Rights: Female Circumcision, Torture and Sacred Fleshconsiders how such images come to inform law and the investment of advocates of law in an imagination of this scene. Drawing on psychoanalytic and postcolonial theory, and accompanying ideas in political theology, Juliet Rogers examines the language, imagery and excitement that accompanies recent initiatives to legislate against what is called 'female genital mutilation'. The author compliments this examination with a consideration of the scene of torture exposed in images from Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay. Rogers argues that the modes of fascination and excitement that accompany scenes of torture and female circumcision betray the fantasy of a political condition against which the subject of liberal law is imagined; this is subjectivity in a state of non-mutilation, non-prohibition or, in a psychoanalytic idiom, non-castration. To support the fantasy of this subject, the mutilated subject, the authors suggests, is rendered as flesh cut from the democratic nation state, deserving of only selective human rights, or none at all.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415841146
ISBN-10: 0415841143
Pagini: 184
Ilustrații: 3 black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Taylor & Francis

Cuprins

1. Fantasies of the Cut  2. The Making of a Fantasy  3. "I love you, I mutilate you": The remnant of the (mutilated) flesh  4. The Law's Clear Message  5. The Violence of the Other's Law  6. The Sacred Flesh of Human Rights  7. The Torture of the Good   8. Woman Does not Exist in Human Rights

Notă biografică

Juliet Rogers teaches criminology at the University of Melbourne