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Moccasin Square Gardens (Richard Van Camp)
No full textA review of the new short story collection from Richard Van Camp
Contemporary Native Fiction: Toward a Narrative Poetics of Survivance (James J. Donahue)
No full textWalking to Magdalena: Personhood and Place in Tohono O’odham Songs, Sticks, and Stories (Seth Schermerhorn)
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The Challenge of Same Sex Provision: How Many Girls Does a Girls' School Need?
Get PDFCan a girls’ school include a boy and remain a single-sex school? Is there something intrinsic to being a girls’ school that exists separately to pure demographic issues? Does single-sex education, and specifically female single-sex education, have an inherent value that is different to that of mixed sex education? To address these questions, this paper draws on some initial findings from a wider research project on the Future of Legal Gender. Specifically, this paper will consider the implications for single-sex services if legal gender status were to be reformed. Especially, what would the consequences be for reform options which (re)allocate authority to organisations or individuals to determine gender criteria and individual status in terms of eligibility to receive or access services? The article uses the example of single sex schools to consider two key questions regarding potential reforms in this area. Firstly, what aims is gender differentiation currently trying to achieve? And secondly, how do service providers, including secondary education providers, currently engage with challenges to their differentiation criteria
Negotiating Binary Conceptions of Sex/Gender in a Multi-Gender World: Response to ‘The Challenge of Same-Sex Provision: How Many Girls Does a Girls’ School Need?’
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Cisgenderism’s Move Beyond Anxious Defence: Commentary on ‘Gender’s Wider Stakes: Lay Attitudes to Legal Gender Reform’
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The Archaeology of the Courts' Domestic Violence Discourse: Discourse as a Knowledge-Sustaining System
Get PDFIn the last several years, the harm of coercive control has been increasingly acknowledged as a domestic violence harm by the England and Wales legal system. In this process of growing acknowledgement of the harm it inflicts in intimate relationships, coercive control is being inserted into existing discourses around domestic violence. The article examines the impact of a discourse on the understanding of a harm: how can the understanding of coercive control be impacted by the structure of the discourse into which it is inserted? The courts’ civil domestic violence discourse in England and Wales and its potential impact on the understanding of coercive control is examined as a case study. Using critical theory which links knowledge to social power as an analytical lens, the discourse is seen as not only founded upon a harm that is entirely detached from women’s experiences but also as a knowledge-sustaining system, operating on an everyday basis to protect and to further strengthen that alienated knowledge. Through its knowledge-sustaining operation, the discourse prevents a meaningful change in the legal understanding of domestic violence, a change that is required for coercive control to be integrated into the discourse in a way that will reflect its essence and severity
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