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Juliet Rogers
Bio: Juliet Rogers is an academic researcher from University of Melbourne. The author has contributed to research in topics: Torture & Psychoanalytic theory. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 29 publications receiving 175 citations.
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TL;DR: The main aim is to express concern about the media coverage of female genital surgeries in Africa, to call for greater accuracy in cultural representations of littleknown others, and to strive for evenhandedness and high standards of reason and evidence in any future public policy debates.
Abstract: Starting in the early 1980s, media coverage of customary African genital surgeries for females has been problematic and overly reliant on sources from within a global activist and advocacy movement ...
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TL;DR: The first case of its kind in a superior court in Australia was argued in the NSW Supreme Court in 2015 as mentioned in this paper, where the judge and juries were asked to decide whether it is appropriate for a child to be circumcised.
Abstract: What is the difference between circumcision, nicking, mutilating or touching the genitals of a child? Does it matter if that child is a girl or a boy? Does it matter if the person performing the procedure is a man or a woman? A doctor or a midwife? A parent or a friend? These are the questions that underpin any consideration that the courts must undertake when they apply the laws against what is termed, in the laws of all western countries, 'Female Genital Mutilation'. The defining of an act as a 'mutilation' is not clear and it is loaded with politics and prejudice. These prejudices relate to the gender, the skin colour and the religion of the person. Judges and juries should not, of course, in Australia today employ such prejudices, but when it comes to the issue of what has been termed 'female genital mutilation' many of the considerations that usually make judges and juries hesitate before they pass sentence, might not apply. And this was the situation in Sydney in 2015, in the first case of its kind in a superior court in Australia.
15 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss how this has occurred in Northern Ireland and how the "trauma" of non-indigenous Australians has trumped the possibility of addressing the unfinished business of justice for Indigenous Australians.
Abstract: Trauma demands a melancholic orientation to the past, a wish to recover what is lost. In conflicts located in long histories of political difference, a focus on the traumas acquired through the violences of the past is crucial, but this focus may do more than inform the politics of the present. The risk is that the symptoms of the trauma become the symptoms of policy. The political environment that emerges lacks the maturity to understand the ordinary emotions of politics and this further limits the possibility of creative political horizons. In short, in the interests of placating trauma survivors and sometimes in the interests of ensuring no issue gets left behind, politics can be trumped by trauma. Here, we discuss how this has occurred in Northern Ireland and how the ‘trauma’ of non-indigenous Australians has trumped the possibility of addressing the ‘unfinished business of justice’ for Indigenous Australians.
14 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the role of emotive images in female genital cutting (FGC) or, more controversially, female genital mutilation, which has motivated the implementation of legislation in many English-speaking countries.
Abstract: Female genital cutting (FGC) or, more controversially, female genital mutilation, has motivated the implementation of legislation in many English-speaking countries, the product of emotive images a...
11 citations
TL;DR: It is the sad, defeated expression on [one little girl's] face after her initiation, even more than the photographs of her agony as the razor blade cuts, again and again, through the tender innocen...
Abstract: It is the sad, defeated expression on [one little girl's] face after her initiation, even more than the photographs of her agony as the razor blade cuts, again and again, through the tender innocen...
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TL;DR: Shattered Assumptions: Toward a New Psychology of Trauma, Ronnie Janoff-Bulman as mentioned in this paper, 256 pp. ISBN 0-02-916015-4.Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror, Judith Lewis Herman. New York: Basic Books, 1992.
Abstract: Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence — from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror, Judith Lewis Herman. New York: Basic Books, 1992. 276 pp. $27.00. ISBN 0-465-08765–5.Shattered Assumptions: Toward A New Psychology of Trauma, Ronnie Janoff-Bulman. New York: The Free Press, 1992, 256 pp. $24.95. ISBN 0-02-916015–4.
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TL;DR: The body politics of Julia Kristeva and the Body Politics of JuliaKristeva as discussed by the authors are discussed in detail in Section 5.1.1 and Section 6.2.1.
Abstract: Preface (1999) Preface (1990) 1. Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire I. 'Women' as the Subject of Feminism II. The Compulsory Order of Sex/Gender/Desire III. Gender: The Circular Ruins of Contemporary Debate IV. Theorizing the Binary, the Unitary and Beyond V. Identity, Sex and the Metaphysics of Substance VI. Language, Power and the Strategies of Displacement 2. Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix I. Structuralism's Critical Exchange II. Lacan, Riviere, and the Strategies of Masquerade III. Freud and the Melancholia of Gender IV. Gender Complexity and the Limits of Identification V. Reformulating Prohibition as Power 3. Subversive Bodily Acts I. The Body Politics of Julia Kristeva II. Foucault, Herculine, and the Politics of Sexual Discontinuity III. Monique Wittig - Bodily Disintegration and Fictive Sex IV. Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions Conclusion - From Parody to Politics
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TL;DR: Michel Foucault takes the reader on a serendipitous journey in tracing the history of madness from the 16th to the 18th centuries using original documents, which recreates the mood, the place, and the proper perspective in thehistory of madness.
Abstract: Michel Foucault takes the reader on a serendipitous journey in tracing the history of madness from the 16th to the 18th centuries. Utilizing original documents, the author recreates the mood, the place, and the proper perspective in the history of madness. Madness or folly is viewed as part of the human condition and to be examined and illuminated through one of its many facets. At the end of the Middle Ages madness was seen either as a tragic or comic phenomenon. The Renaissance, with Erasmus' Praise of Folly , demonstrated how imagination and its derivatives were to thinkers of that day. The French Revolution introduced the so-called medical approach. Madness is a ubiquitous phenomenon that has common roots not only in medicine but in poetry and tragedy. Shakespeare brilliantly describes psychological phenomena with even greater clarity than Tuke or Wills. The author weaves a fascinating history showing the changing pattern of
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