An abolitionist theory on crime: ending the abusive relationship with Racist-Imperialist-Patriarchy [R.I.P.]

In this article I re-assess the parameters of what we seek to abolish as we pursue penal abolition. I apply Black Feminist Hauntology to exorcize the barriers of traditional and ineffective deconstructions of crime and criminalization. To illustrate these weaknesses I discuss police killings and related vigilante white supremacist violence. I present the aftermath of the deaths and trials (when there were trials) to bring to light the large disconnects that exist between abolitionism and the world in which crime lives. To begin to address this disconnect I present an abolitionist theory on crime founded upon five pillars of assessment: abolition’s perceived minimization of violence; the abusive R.I.P. relationship between crime and justice; a cultural phenomenon of achieving significance through proximity or by association; abusive naturalizations of violence that have been unaddressed in penal abolition; locating the struggles to exit abusive relationships within the core of our studies of criminal justice and penal abolition. I conclude that when penal abolitionists conceive of crime as a social construction tied to criminal justice institutions alone, as opposed to part of a structurally Racist-Imperialist-Patriarchal [R-I-P] abusive relationship, they stunt the possibilities of abolition in manners akin to pushing against a 500 year old tree from its trunk and expecting it to topple over without any account for the roots that hold it firmly in the ground.     

西方女性主义犯罪学的兴起与发展

西方发达国家女性犯罪学研究的兴起与发展、壮大有其理论渊源,当然也存在诸多问题。西方女性犯罪学随着自身的发展也呈现出理论整合趋势。西方女性犯罪学的研究也为研究我国社会转型时期日趋严重的女性犯罪现象提供可资借鉴的理论成果。     

When Equality Is not Equity:Homosexual Inclusion in Undue Influence Law

In Barclay's Bank v. O'Brien(1993) the House of Lords extended the undue influence rules to heterosexual and homosexual cohabitees, a move that was widely welcomed and has been endorsed in Royal Bank of Scotland v. Etridge (No. 2) (2001). The paper argues that the extension to homosexual couples is inappropriate, since undue influence is largely a problem of heterosexuality. It is not accidental that there have been no reported cases of undue influence between lesbian or gay partners, not because abuses of power do not occur within such relationships, but because they are free of the central causal factor of undue influence: not intimacy per se but the gendered power dynamic within heterosexual intimacy that has characterised almost all reported cases. The first part of the paper examines the courts' treatment of gay and lesbian couples in other areas of equity and concludes that the absence of gender role assumptions leads courts to treat lesbian and gay claimants more equitably than they do heterosexual women. The second part focuses on the potential for gay and, especially, lesbian relationships to act as models of more egalitarian relationships than heterosexual ones. The dominant discourse of inclusion within the gay and lesbian legal lobby is problematised, and the paper concludes that what is needed is social and judicial recognition of what is different, not what is the same, about our relationships. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

女性主义视角下的广告女性形象探析

广告构图中的女性形象,无论是作为性客体的美女,还是极具"女性气质"的家庭主妇、职业女性,都是自然化性别差异观点的直接产物。生物学结构的等级观念支配着包括广告在内的媒介和大众关于性别的话语,看似远离意识形态的商业广告,实际上却代表了包含政治意义的男性霸权文化,广告在性政治层面的暴力倾向应当引起高度重视,广告的女性形象在隐性强化着两性不平等。     

女性历史的解构与重建——中国现代女作家的女权探索兼论丁玲的特殊贡献

在中国现代三代女作家中,庐隐、冯沅君、冰心谋求从不同侧面建构女性新的历史,却未能对传统彻底解构;张爱玲彻底解构了女性历史,却未能在新的起点上有所建构;而丁玲在这两方面均做出了可贵的努力。她既猛烈地扫除堆置在女权道路上的一切垃圾,又以拓荒者的姿态,谋求在这片荒芜的土地上建构起女权大厦,如何使女性作家既坚持女性写作,服务于女权的自我探索,又谨防西化;如何使女性写作既与社会的发展同步,又不至于淹没于宏大的叙事之中,丁玲为我们提供了多方面的有益启示。     

论女性主义研究的方法论意义

作者认为目前中国涉及性别和女性主义研究的文章,有关妇女家庭状况的调查研究多,但理论阐释少;对问题的描述多,但系统分析少;关于性别的意识形态呼吁多,但把女性主义研究放到一个广泛的社会系统中研究少;在分析中,对文化规范注重得多,但与制度因素相关的理论解释少.有鉴于此,本文从五个方面阐述了西方女性主义的理论贡献,并阐释了研究西方女性主义理论对中国性别研究所具有的重要意义.     

男女平等：目标与现实

在中国,男女平等的现实与理想之间尚存在很大差距.中国的妇女解放更多地是依靠外力,而缺乏女性的自觉.从中国女性史的角度看,中国经历和正在经历一个由性别独尊到性别趋同再到性别差异的过程.男女平等在当前中国,仍然只是目标,而非现实.     

妇女与社会政策--论妇女地位在北欧国家的变迁

从性别角度研究福利国家,为研究者提供了一个把握妇女和国家社会政策之间复杂联系的方法。这一维度的研究被北欧女权主义学者所发展,它强调妇女对发展福利国家的巨大贡献。然而本研究将考察妇女与国家联系的另一个方面:即国家的社会政策是如何影响妇女在社会中的地位的。为了说明这个问题,本研究将讨论妇女作为家庭主妇、母亲、配偶和公民的角色,揭示北欧国家社会再生产体系的转型,考察北欧国家的社会政策发展及其如何将妇女从家庭中解放出来使她们成为社会公民。由此,本研究为思考在中国实现男女平等的现实道路提供了可借鉴的经验。     

La Nouvelle Vague: Epiphanies, Encounters, Events

A recent collection of essays,Feminist Perspectives on Law and Theory,is here taken as the starting point for an analysis of the political trajectory of feminist jurisprudence. The ‘new wave’ of feminism borrows much of its inspiration from continental theory – from Derrida, Deleuze and Irigaray – and has been subject to criticism for its attention to language and its turn towards culture and aesthetics. Reviewing the materialist bases of the new wave, and particularly its concern with the immediacies of the body and events, it is argued here that it represents a return to the radicalism of feminist legal theory. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.