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

• Autore: Bell Vikki <1967, >
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1993
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (225 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.877
• Soggetto topico: Incest; Feminist theory; Sex crimes
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Interrogating incest
• ISBN: 1-134-89652-2; 1-134-89653-0; 1-280-32242-X; 0-203-41018-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779815903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Sociology of law and crime.