Voicing embodiment, relating difference: towards a relational legal subjectivity
Hanafin, Patrick (2008) Voicing embodiment, relating difference: towards a relational legal subjectivity. Australian Feminist Law Journal 29 , pp. 77-90. ISSN 1320-0968.
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Abstract
Focusing on the writings of Adriana Cavarero and Lia Cigarini, this piece examines the possible counterpractices and counterspaces of a politics of relational subjectivity outside the time of the masculine legal order which are to be found in Italian sexual difference theory. Both Cavarero and Cigarini share a desire to create a practice of sexual difference based on relational subjectivity. In their writings and in their praxis they have attempted to bring into being spaces where the unique embodied existent can interact with other unique existents in a space of relational politics. This is a politics based on the unique existent who acts, speaks, and thinks for herself rather than one based on the ideal abstract individual of liberal rights ideology. In effect, it amounts to a politics of relational plurivocality.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| School: | School of Law |
| Research Centres and Institutes: | Gender and Sexuality, Birkbeck (BiGS), Social Research, Birkbeck Institute for (BISR), Contemporary Literature, Centre for |
| Depositing User: | Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Nov 2009 17:55 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Feb 2021 03:34 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/819 |
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