Racialised Gang Rape and the Reinforcement of Dominant Order: Discourses of Gender, Race and Nation

ISBN-13: 9781138368071 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 224 str.

Kiran Kaur Grewal

Opis

This path-breaking book provides a comparative analysis of public discourses in France and Australia on a series of highly mediatised racialised gang rapes that occurred during the early to mid-2000s. These rapes led to intense public debate in both countries regarding an apparent ‘gang rape phenomenon’ associated with young men of Muslim background. By comparing the responses to similar instances of sexual violence in two very different Western liberal democracies, this book explores the relationship between constructions of national, gender and ethnic identity in modern, developed nations of the West.

 

O autorze

Kiran Kaur Grewal is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Justice, Australian Catholic University. Her areas of research specialisation include postcolonial and feminist legal theory, sexual violence, human and women’s rights and the relationship between law and subaltern struggles for justice. Prior to joining ACU, Kiran was a lecturer in human rights and socio-legal studies at the University of Sydney. She has also worked with Amnesty International and as a litigation lawyer in Sydney, specializing in administrative and immigration law. Kiran is also the author of the book, The Socio-Political Practice of Human Rights: Between the Universal and the Particular.