Rijswijk, Honni van, <br/><br/>
Law, culture and the figure of the girl :  genre and gender violence / 
Honni van Rijswijk. 
 - Abingdon, Oxon ;  New York, NY :  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,  2025. 
 - 1 online resource (x, 153 pages) 
<br/><br/>The Figure of the Girl -- (Undoing) The Bildungsroman of Consent -- Feminist imaginaries of justice : Forgiveness, Revenge, Tragedy, Contract? -- Law and the Girl at the end of the world. 
<br/><br/> "This book argues for the critical potential of locating the girlas the subject-position and voice of legal critique. Law's imaginary is notoriously limited in its ways of thinking through and adjudicating gender violence. This book argues that 'the girl' is a key figure through which to understand, theorise and challenge law's relation to this violence. Law, Culture and the Girl explains the meaning and significance of the figure of the girl to legal, political and critical projects centred on trauma and responsibility. The book offers new readings of exemplary cultural texts that thematically deal with law's adjudication of violence against girls, emphasising the ways these texts challenge dominant ways of thinking and doing law, jurisdiction, violence, race and gender. The book also explores radical cultural figurations of the girl in fiction, films and TV series, and demonstrates the critical potential of these works in understanding and providing counter-narratives to dominant legal and cultural imaginaries. These works provide ways not only to critique existing law, but to theorise emergent forms of law-making. This book will be of interest to scholars in the areas of cultural legal studies, law and literature, feminist legal studies and cultural studies. It will also be suitable as a prescribed text for upper undergraduate classes and graduate studies in the disciplines of law, legal studies, cultural studies and criminology"-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0429263678 9780429563171 0429563175 9780429554230 0429554230 9780429558702 0429558708 9780429263675 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.4324/9780429263675  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women--Violence against--Law and legislation.<br/>Women--Crimes against--Law and legislation.<br/>Gender-based violence.<br/>Feminist jurisprudence.<br/>Culture and law.<br/>Group identity.<br/>LAW / Child Advocacy<br/>LAW / Gender & the Law<br/>LAW / Family Law / Children
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>345/.025082