Law's Cut on the Body of Human Rights: Female Circumcision, Torture and Sacred Flesh - Rilegato

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Rogers, Juliet

 
9780415661706: Law's Cut on the Body of Human Rights: Female Circumcision, Torture and Sacred Flesh
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ISBN 10: 0415661706 ISBN 13: 9780415661706
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2013

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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 Flesh considers 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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Juliet Rogers teaches criminology at the University of Melbourne

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Editore
Routledge
Data di pubblicazione
2013
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0415661706
ISBN 13 
9780415661706
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
184
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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9780415841146: Law's Cut on the Body of Human Rights: Female Circumcision, Torture and Sacred Flesh

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ISBN 10:  0415841143 ISBN 13:  9780415841146
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2015
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