Mastering Emotions or Still Losing Control? Seeking Public Engagement with 'Sexual Infidelity' Homicide
Author(s)
Howe, Adrian
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2013
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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.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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Journal Title
Feminist Legal Studies
Volume
21
Issue
2
Subject
Criminal Law and Procedure
Law