The age of consent is a polarised concept which has caused a dissonance between the law and socie... more The age of consent is a polarised concept which has caused a dissonance between the law and society for the past one hundred fifty years. s9 Sexual Offences Act 2003 epitomises the discord when it creates an offence of Sexual Activity with a Child which envisages that a girl under the age of 16 (and even those under 13) can consent to penetrative sexual acts with an adult. This article contends that whilst it is meritorious of Parliament to create an offence of strict liability which renders liable, any person having sexual intercourse with a girl under 16, the symbolic value of the broad offence label does little to communicate the full extent of the guilty conduct of the perpetrator (where penetration is involved). It argues that the label in fact perpetuates attitudes toward girls under 16: that they are self-determinate, sexually autonomous miscreants sent to inveigle ordinary men with their youthful and phlegmatic erotism. It contends that girls between 13 and 16 are learning t...
This article offers a comparative analysis of the cultural aspects which impact upon a states ina... more This article offers a comparative analysis of the cultural aspects which impact upon a states inability to investigate and prosecute crimes against women. It considers the histography and importance of cultural practices pertaining to Bride Price, Child Marriage, Polygamy and FGM and proffers these as examples of why state claims that domestic prosecution of international crimes is impossible.
Concealed in mud banks, dotted around middle England for upwards of one thousand years lay severa... more Concealed in mud banks, dotted around middle England for upwards of one thousand years lay several valorous Viking soldiers masqueraded in full armour, having paid the ultimate price in fighting for their cause. 1 Brave, aggressive and patriotic just some of the adjectives used to describe behaviours customarily associated with the ideologically gendered male body; except these were women. Thus, assumptions made merely through the archetypal soldiering role and the antithetical cross-over of gender normativity that these women
The age of consent is a polarised concept which has caused a dissonance between the law and socie... more The age of consent is a polarised concept which has caused a dissonance between the law and society for the past one hundred fifty years. s9 Sexual Offences Act 2003 epitomises the discord when it creates an offence of Sexual Activity with a Child which envisages that a girl under the age of 16 (and even those under 13) can consent to penetrative sexual acts with an adult. This article contends that whilst it is meritorious of Parliament to create an offence of strict liability which renders liable, any person having sexual intercourse with a girl under 16, the symbolic value of the broad offence label does little to communicate the full extent of the guilty conduct of the perpetrator (where penetration is involved). It argues that the label in fact perpetuates attitudes toward girls under 16: that they are self-determinate, sexually autonomous miscreants sent to inveigle ordinary men with their youthful and phlegmatic erotism. It contends that girls between 13 and 16 are learning t...
This article offers a comparative analysis of the cultural aspects which impact upon a states ina... more This article offers a comparative analysis of the cultural aspects which impact upon a states inability to investigate and prosecute crimes against women. It considers the histography and importance of cultural practices pertaining to Bride Price, Child Marriage, Polygamy and FGM and proffers these as examples of why state claims that domestic prosecution of international crimes is impossible.
Concealed in mud banks, dotted around middle England for upwards of one thousand years lay severa... more Concealed in mud banks, dotted around middle England for upwards of one thousand years lay several valorous Viking soldiers masqueraded in full armour, having paid the ultimate price in fighting for their cause. 1 Brave, aggressive and patriotic just some of the adjectives used to describe behaviours customarily associated with the ideologically gendered male body; except these were women. Thus, assumptions made merely through the archetypal soldiering role and the antithetical cross-over of gender normativity that these women
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