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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779815903321

Autore

Bell Vikki <1967, >

Titolo

Interrogating incest : feminism, Foucault, and the law / / Vikki Bell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1993

ISBN

1-134-89652-2

1-134-89653-0

1-280-32242-X

0-203-41018-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Collana

Sociology of law and crime

Disciplina

306.877

Soggetti

Incest

Feminist theory

Sex crimes

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-206) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Series editors' preface; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION: INTERROGATING INCEST; A CONTINUAL CONTEST: FOUCAULT AND FEMINISM; FAMILIAR STORIES: THE FEMINIST ANALYSES OF INCEST; TELLING AND TABOO: FEMINISM WITHIN THE FOUCAULDIAN LANDSCAPE; WHAT'S THE PROBLEM? THE CONSTRUCTION AND CRIMINALISATION OF INCEST; MAKING MONSTERS, LOCATING SEX: FOUCAULT AND FEMINISM IN DEBATE; CONCLUSION; The law of incest in Britain; List of parliamentary debates; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Winner of British Sociological Association Philip Abrams Memorial Prize 1993 Within feminism incest has often been subsumed under a discussion of sexual violence and abuse. Yet, important as this is, there has been little account of how feminist work itself relates to other ways of talking about and understanding incest.In Interrogating Incest Vikki Bell focuses on the issue of incest and its place in sociological theory, feminist theory and criminal law. By examining incest from a critical Foucauldian framework she considers how feminist discourse on incest itself fits into exist