Writing Against Legal Fictions
Abstract
This chapter discusses feminist refusal as a methodology of legal ethnographic writing about gender and sexual violence and protection. Theorizing legal fiction, the chapter discusses challenges to writing with law and the politics of claiming unsilencing, experience, and the victim as a legal subject position. The chapter engages different approaches to race and experience taken up by critical race theory, critical ethnic studies, and feminist theories, albeit in in different ways.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Feminism
Gender
and Sexuality Studies
Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies
Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Duke University Press eBooks
- Pages
- 27–44
- Publication date
- 12 January 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter