{"id":11479,"date":"2013-10-04T11:39:55","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T15:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/its-cuthemedev1.carleton.ca\/law\/?p=11479"},"modified":"2025-06-23T11:43:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:43:14","slug":"ma-legal-studies-student-wins-oxford-university-book-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/2013\/ma-legal-studies-student-wins-oxford-university-book-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"MA Legal Studies Student Wins Oxford University Book Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        MA Legal Studies Student Wins Oxford University Book Prize\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Congratulations to MA Legal Studies student, <strong>Alexa Dodge<\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her paper entitled, \u201c<strong>Genital Culture: Exploring the Cultural Importance of Genital Surgery in the West<\/strong>\u201d received the <em><strong>Oxford University Book prize<\/strong><\/em> for best paper on a feminist legal theory topic. As part of this prize, Dodge receives $200 towards books from Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this paper, Dodge demonstrates how Western discourse vilifies cultures that engage in female genital mutilation (FGM) without realizing how the Western practices of intersex surgery and cosmetic vaginal surgery are also culturally imbued practices that can be seen as forms of genital mutilation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dodge argues that&nbsp;the cultural influence of the West needs to be recognized so that we can better perceive how the agency of Western subjects is also directed and confined by our cultural context. Western society is often conceived of as \u201cnormal\u201d and \u201cun-cultured\u201d in comparison to the third-world, which is seen as abnormal and cultured. The use of Western society as the reference <i>par excellence<\/i> by which to measure other cultures needs to be questioned. Western society is also a cultured space wherein subjects are regulated and controlled and, in this case, where the importance of gender norms and the ideal of the perfect, \u201cnormal\u201d vagina regulate women and their bodies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to MA Legal Studies student, Alexa Dodge! Her paper entitled, \u201cGenital Culture: Exploring the Cultural Importance of Genital Surgery in the West\u201d received the Oxford University Book prize for best paper on a feminist legal theory topic. As part of this prize, Dodge receives $200 towards books from Oxford University Press. In this paper, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11482,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,1,552,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-graduate-news","category-news","category-student-research","category-ug-awards"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11479"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26677,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11479\/revisions\/26677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}