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Dec. 5 | The Feminist Cafés: Ummni Khan
Thursday, December 5, 2013 from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm
- In-person event
- Contact
- womenst@uOttawa.ca
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L’Institute d’études des femmes | The Institute of Women’s Studies
présente | presents
Les Cafés Féministes | The Feminist Cafés
2013-2014
Taking Her Breath Away: Carceral Responses to Erotic Asphyxiation in R v JA
Ummni Khan, Ph.D.
Professor in the Department of Law and Legal Studies | Carleton University
In this talk, Professor Khan will problematize the legal decision and the carceral feminist response to the R v. JA case at the trial and Supreme Court of Canada ([2011] 2 S.C.R. 440; 2008 ONCJ 195). Drawing on Judith Halberstam’s notion of queer time, and Janet Halley’s notion of the politics of injury, she will argue that male sexual abuse became the master narrative in legal and feminist engagements with the facts, which rendered the possibility of kinky subjectivity, female sexual agency and female culpability unthinkable.
Thursday, December 5th | 11am – 1pm | Registration not required.
Conférence en anglais | Une période de questions bilingue suivra
