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Speaking out: feminism, rape and narrative politics
This is the first critical study of feminist practices of 'speaking out' in response to rape. This book argues that feminist anti-rape politics are characterised by a belief in the transformative potential of women's personal narratives of sexual violence. The political mobilisation of these narratives has been an incredibly successful strategy, but one with unresolved ethical questions and political limitations. The book explores both the successes and the unresolved questions through feminist archival materials, published narratives of sexual violence, and mass media and internet sources. It argues that that a rethinking of the role and place of women's stories and the politics of speaking out is vital for a rethinking of feminist politics around sexual violence and key to fresh approaches to combating this violence.
#MeToo and the Politics of Social Change; #MeToo, Weinstein and Feminism; #MeToo: Stories From the Australian Movement: edited by Bianca Fileborn and Rachel Loney-Howes, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 350 pp., €29.11, ISBN 978-3-030-15213-0
In: Australian feminist studies, Band 35, Heft 105, S. 310-313
ISSN: 1465-3303
From Date Rape Jeopardy to (Not) Drinking Tea: Consent Humour, Ridicule and Cultural Change
In: The Australian feminist law journal, Band 46, Heft 2, S. 189-204
ISSN: 2204-0064
Book Review: Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their Lives
In: Social & legal studies: an international journal, Band 27, Heft 3, S. 400-404
ISSN: 1461-7390
Kerry Carrington, Feminism and Global Justice
In: Punishment & society, Band 19, Heft 5, S. 658-660
ISSN: 1741-3095
"How Can a Woman Who Has Been Raped Be Believed". Andrea Dworkin, sexual violence and the ethics of belief
In June 2000, Andrea Dworkin, an American feminist activist and author, published an account of being raped in a Paris hotel room a year earlier. The story was met with widespread disbelief, including from feminist readers. This article explores the reasons for this disbelief, asking how and why narratives of rape are granted – or denied – truth status by their readers. The article argues for understanding the conferral of belief as a narrative transaction involving the actions of both narrator and reader. It posits that Dworkin was widely seen as an unreliable narrator but argues that for ideologically charged narratives such as rape narratives judgements of reliability and belief inevitably draw upon the normative standpoint of the reader. I suggest that there are opposing criteria for establishing the truth of rape narratives; a 'factual' or legal model, which sees rape narratives as requiring scrutiny, and an 'experiential' model, located within certain strands of feminist politics, which emphasises the ethical importance of believing women's narratives. The article finishes with a consideration of the place of belief within an ethics of reading and reception of rape narratives.
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"How Can a Woman Who Has Been Raped Be Believed?": Andrea Dworkin, Sexual Violence and the Ethics of Belief
In: Serisier , T 2015 , ' "How Can a Woman Who Has Been Raped Be Believed?": Andrea Dworkin, Sexual Violence and the Ethics of Belief ' , Diegesis , vol. 4 , no. 1 , pp. 68-87 .
In June 2000, Andrea Dworkin, an American feminist activist and author, published an account of being raped in a Paris hotel room a year earlier. The story was met with widespread disbelief, including from feminist readers. This article explores the reasons for this disbelief, asking how and why narratives of rape are granted – or denied – truth status by their readers. The article argues for understanding the conferral of belief as a narrative transaction involving the actions of both narrator and reader. It posits that Dworkin was widely seen as an unreliable narrator but argues that for ideologically charged narratives such as rape narratives judgements of reliability and belief inevitably draw upon the normative standpoint of the reader. I suggest that there are opposing criteria for establishing the truth of rape narratives; a 'factual' or legal model, which sees rape narratives as requiring scrutiny, and an 'experiential' model, located within certain strands of feminist politics, which emphasises the ethical importance of believing women's narratives. The article finishes with a consideration of the place of belief within an ethics of reading and reception of rape narratives.
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The Unsociable Sociability of Women's Lifewriting
In: Australian feminist studies, Band 28, Heft 76, S. 241-243
ISSN: 1465-3303
Who Was Andrea? Writing Oneself as a Feminist Icon
In: Women: a cultural review, Band 24, Heft 1, S. 26-44
ISSN: 1470-1367
Theoretical Stories
A review of Clare Hemmings, Why Stories Matter: The Political Grammar of Feminist Theory (Duke 2011) and Janet Halley & Andrew Parker (eds.) After Sex? On Writing Since Queer Theory (Duke 2011).
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'Remembering Anita': Rape and the Politics of Commemoration
In: The Australian feminist law journal, Band 23, Heft 1, S. 121-145
ISSN: 2204-0064
Video activism and the ambiguities of counter-surveillance
This paper examines the use of visual technologies by political activists in protest situations to monitor police conduct. Using interview data with Australian video activists this paper seeks to understand the motivations, techniques and outcomes of video activism, and its relationship to counter-surveillance and police accountability. Our data also indicated that there have been significant transformations in the organization and deployment of counter-surveillance methods since 2000, when there were large-scale protests against the World Economic Forum meeting in Melbourne accompanied by a coordinated campaign that sought to document police misconduct. The paper identifies and examines two inter-related aspects of this; the act of filming and the process of dissemination of this footage. It is noted that technological changes in the last decade have led to a proliferation of visual recording technologies, particularly mobile phone cameras, which have stimulated a corresponding proliferation of images. Analogous innovations in internet communications have stimulated a coterminous proliferation of potential outlets for images. Video footage provides activists with valuable tools for safety and publicity. Nevertheless, we argue, video activism can have unintended consequences, including exposure to legal risks and the amplification of official surveillance. Activists are also often unable to control the political effects of their footage or the purposes to which it is used. We conclude by assessing the impact that transformations in both protest organization and media technologies might have for counter-surveillance techniques based on visual surveillance.
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Video activism and the ambiguities of counter-surveillance
This paper examines the use of visual technologies by political activists in protest situations to monitor police conduct. Using interview data with Australian video activists, this paper seeks to understand the motivations, techniques and outcomes of video activism, and its relationship to counter-surveillance and police accountability. Our data also indicated that there have been significant transformations in the organization and deployment of counter-surveillance methods since 2000, when there werelarge-scale protests against the World Economic Forum meeting in Melbourne accompanied by a coordinated campaign that sought to document police misconduct. The paper identifies and examines two inter-related aspects of this: the act of filming and the process of dissemination of this footage. It is noted that technological changes over the last decade have led to a proliferation of visual recording technologies, particularly mobile phone cameras, which have stimulated a corresponding proliferation of images. Analogous innovations in internet communications have stimulated a coterminous proliferation of potential outlets for images. Video footage provides activists with a valuable tool for safety and publicity. Nevertheless, we argue, video activism can have unintended consequences, including exposure to legal risks and the amplification of official surveillance. Activists are also often unable to control the political effects of their footage or the purposes to which it is used. We conclude by assessing the impact that transformations in both protest organization and media technologies might have for counter-surveillance techniques based on visual surveillance.
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Beyond the Desire for Law: Sex and Crisis in Australian Feminist and Queer Politics
In: The Australian feminist law journal, Band 31, Heft 1, S. 77-98
ISSN: 2204-0064