Unexpected Subjects: Intimate Partner Violence, Testimony, and the Law - Couverture souple

Gribaldo, Alessandra

 
9781912808304: Unexpected Subjects: Intimate Partner Violence, Testimony, and the Law
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1912808307 ISBN 13 : 9781912808304
Editeur : HAU, 2020

Synopsis

Unexpected Subjects is an ethnography of the encounter between women’s words and the demands of the law in the context of adjudications on intimate partner violence. A study of institutional devices, it focuses on women’s practices of resistance and the elicitation of intelligible subjectivities. Using Italy as an illustrative case, Alessandra Gribaldo explores the problematic encounter between the need to speak, the entanglement of violence and intimacy, and the way the law approaches domestic violence. On this basis she advances theoretical reflections on questions of evidence, persuasion, and testimony, and their implications for ethnographic theory. Gribaldo analyzes dynamics that create the victim-subject, shedding light on how the Italian legal system reproduces broader conditions of violence against women. This book will be of great interest to all social scientists concerned with gender and the law.

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À propos de l'auteur

Alessandra Gribaldo is associate professor of cultural anthropology at Roma Tre University in Rome.

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Éditeur
HAU
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1912808307
ISBN 13 
9781912808304
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
158
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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