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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Sociology of law and crimePublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1993Description: xiii, 210 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415079519
  • 9780415079518
  • 0415101042
  • 9780415101042
  • 0203410181
  • 9780203410189
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.877 20
LOC classification:
  • HQ71 .B32 1993
Contents:
1. Introduction: Interrogating Incest -- 2. A Continual Contest: Foucault and Feminism -- 3. Familiar Stories: The Feminist Analyses of Incest -- 4. Telling and Taboo: Feminism Within the Foucauldian Landscape -- 5. What's the Problem? The Construction and Criminalisation of Incest -- 6. Making Monsters, Locating Sex: Foucault and Feminism in Debate -- 7. Conclusion -- Appendix I: The law of incest in Britain -- Appendix II: List of parliamentary debates -- --
Preface -- Series editors' preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: Interrogating Incest -- 2. A Continual Contest: Foucault and Feminism -- 3. Familiar Stories: The Feminist Analyses of Incest -- 4. Telling and Taboo: Feminism Within the Foucauldian Landscape -- 5. What's the Problem? The Construction and Criminalisation of Incest -- 6. Making Monsters, Locating Sex: Foucault and Feminism in Debate -- 7. Conclusion -- Appendix I: The law of incest in Britain -- Appendix II: List of parliamentary debates -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: "Interrogating Incest discusses how feminist theory, informed by the work of Michel Foucault, can create ways of talking about and understanding incest, a topic usually placed under the category of sexual violence and abuse, but otherwise neglected. In Interrogating Incest, Vikki Bell discusses this issue in the context of sociological and feminist theory and criminal law. By examining incest in the context of Foucauldian theories, she considers how feminist discourse on incest fits into existing ways of talking about sex. Closely surveying the historical background to incest legislation and the theoretical issues involved, Vikki Bell delineates their practical implications to show what uncomfortable questions and important dilemmas are raised by the criminalization of incest."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-206) and index.

1. Introduction: Interrogating Incest -- 2. A Continual Contest: Foucault and Feminism -- 3. Familiar Stories: The Feminist Analyses of Incest -- 4. Telling and Taboo: Feminism Within the Foucauldian Landscape -- 5. What's the Problem? The Construction and Criminalisation of Incest -- 6. Making Monsters, Locating Sex: Foucault and Feminism in Debate -- 7. Conclusion -- Appendix I: The law of incest in Britain -- Appendix II: List of parliamentary debates -- --

Preface -- Series editors' preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: Interrogating Incest -- 2. A Continual Contest: Foucault and Feminism -- 3. Familiar Stories: The Feminist Analyses of Incest -- 4. Telling and Taboo: Feminism Within the Foucauldian Landscape -- 5. What's the Problem? The Construction and Criminalisation of Incest -- 6. Making Monsters, Locating Sex: Foucault and Feminism in Debate -- 7. Conclusion -- Appendix I: The law of incest in Britain -- Appendix II: List of parliamentary debates -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

"Interrogating Incest discusses how feminist theory, informed by the work of Michel Foucault, can create ways of talking about and understanding incest, a topic usually placed under the category of sexual violence and abuse, but otherwise neglected. In Interrogating Incest, Vikki Bell discusses this issue in the context of sociological and feminist theory and criminal law. By examining incest in the context of Foucauldian theories, she considers how feminist discourse on incest fits into existing ways of talking about sex. Closely surveying the historical background to incest legislation and the theoretical issues involved, Vikki Bell delineates their practical implications to show what uncomfortable questions and important dilemmas are raised by the criminalization of incest."--Publisher description.

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