Australian Feminist Law Journal

Author Meets Readers: Feminist Jurisography: Law, History, Writing The following is an edited version of an Author Meets Readers conversation held on 20 February 2025 at UNSW Sydney celebrating Ann Genovese’s book Feminist Jurisography: Law, History, Writing (Rout...

Celebrate the publication of Ann Genovese’s ‘Feminist Jurisography’ with this brilliant conversation between author and readers. Follow the conversation, with Ann Genovese, Ann Curthoys, Alecia Simmonds, and Angela Kintominas.

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Keen to publish in the AFLJ? We publish online year-round, but if you’re interesting in publishing in our 2025 General Issue, submit by 30 June. Our amazing Editors can’t wait to work with you! (Or contact us: australianfeministlawjournal@outlook.com)

The Politics of Legal Form: An Essay on Subjunctive Jurisprudence This essay situates the jurisprudential practice of the Feminist Judgments Projects (FJPs) within a wider category of ‘subjunctive jurisprudence’. It thereby aims to do several things. Initially, t...

🚨New article! Our latest is a phenomenal paper by Ben Golder, which situates the jurisprudential practice of the Feminist Judgments Projects within a wider category of ‘subjunctive jurisprudence' - 10/10, highly recommend!

Read OPEN ACCESS here:

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Deadline extended! Submit your proposal for the 2026 issue of the AFLJ by 31 March 2025 to australianfeministlawjournal@outlook.com

Are We Human Or are We Dancer?: Sex, Drugs, and Bodies of Law In Frames of War, Judith Butler poses the problem of apprehending a life and argues that ‘specific lives cannot be apprehended as injured or lost if they are not first apprehended as living’. This ...

🚨New article! Sean Mulcahy and Kate Seear draw on the feminist legal scholarship of Judith Butler and Ratna Kapur to explore who is considered 'living' in the context of drug law and policy, critical drug scholarship, and human rights. Sensitive and important.

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Call for papers! We are currently accepting submissions to our 2025 General Issue. If you have a paper that takes a feminist approach to law and justice (broadly conceived), submit online by 30 May 2025, or contact us for more details.

Do you have an event, workshop, conference, or idea that would make a great Special Issue for the AFLJ? We’d love to read your proposals for 2026! Click the link below to submit and for more details on issue requirements, dates, and deadlines, or contact us.
 
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‼️ New from
Inês Espinhaço Gomes, who analyses the case of athlete Caster Semenya before the European Court of Human Rights, through the lenses of queer legal theory and intersectional feminism. A fantastic - and important - read!

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Trauma Work – On Writing Crimes of Passion Since Shakespeare–Red Mist Rage Unmasked This paper revisits the traumatic process of writing Crimes of Passion Since Shakespeare.

In our first ever #praxis piece, Adrian Howe revisits the traumatic process of writing her new book, ‘Crimes of Passion Since Shakespeare’. This one is a cracker - read here 👇🏼☄️

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Do you have an event, workshop, conference, or idea that would make a great Special Issue for the AFLJ? We’d love to read your proposals for 2026! Click the link below to submit and for more details on issue requirements, dates, and deadlines, or contact us.
 
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We offer a supportive and collegial editorial process to support emerging feminist scholars, practitioners and advocates enter the world of scholarly publishing.

If you have, or know of, a brilliant Honours project, we’d love to hear from you! For more: australianfeministlawjour al@outlook.com

Flying Free? Risk and Regulation in Recreational Flying Trapeze Legal and regulatory theory has been fascinated by the relationship between law and other forms of regulation in a differentiated society. While some scholars have pointed out the benefits of local...

🚨 New article! In the latest from the AFLJ, Amanda Alexander interrogates law and regulatory techniques in flying trapeze - are recreational flyers, usually women, really as free as they seem? Read it here 👇🏼

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Queering the Rome Statute: Searching for the International Criminal Court’s Potential to Do Justice to Queer People The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is tasked with holding individuals accountable for the perpetration of the most heinous international crimes. However, the Rome Statute do...

🚨In our latest article, author Lars van der Ent examines the extent to which the ICC can protect queer people, arguing that the Rome Statute is limited in its capacity to do justice for queer people. Read it here!

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Between Consumption and Liberation – A Critical Analysis of Women’s Legal Trajectory of Emancipation, Regulation and Gender Pricing Law is always perceived as pivotal to women’s emancipation. Women gaining any form of legal recognition is construed as a step towards gender equality. Therefore, when looking to address issues aro...

In our most recent article, @suzanarahde.bsky.social takes a Queer Marxist lens to examine gender pricing as a site of regulation of gendered identities 🌟 A fantastic read! Access it here:

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Affirmative Consent is Not Enough: A Feminist Critique of the NSW Reforms and the Limits of Consent under Patriarchy On 1 June 2022, long-awaited reforms to the law of sexual consent came into force in NSW. The central feature of the amendments is the introduction of affirmative consent – a ‘yes means yes’ standa...

First article alert! 🚨 Issue 50(2) kicks off with a bang as Genevieve Couvret considers the NSW model of affirmative consent in the context of feminist theory, with particular focus on the work of Catharine MacKinnon.

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Introduction to the Special Issue Romancing the Tomes 2.0: Feminism, Law and Popular Culture Published in Australian Feminist Law Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)

Interested in what our recently completed Special Issue, 'Romancing the Tomes 2.0: Feminism, Law and Popular Culture' offers? Read the introduction from the editors here:

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Feminist Witnessing: Everywhere All At Once: Coercive Control and the Impacts of Feminist Law Reform Efforts on Popular Culture The term ‘coercive control’, referring to patterns of control, manipulation and abuse committed against current or former intimate partners and family members, has entered both the cultural and leg...

The final article in our most recent Special Issue is now online in advance! Here, Sanam Amin argues that recognition of coercive control as an aspect of domestic violence is an example of how feminism, law and popular culture are related. Important and timely.

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Final Fatal Girls – Horror and the Legal Subject In mainstream culture, the horror genre is frequently looked down upon as trivial, shlocky and nasty – horror films are seen as being cheap to make, made for a younger, mass audience, and horror fi...

In this fascinating new article, Penny Crofts and Honni van Rijswijk explore the ‘progressive, subversive and critical’ potential of the horror genre, and what it means for the law. Read in full -

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Horror in the Halls of Law: Pluralising Legal Stories in Once Upon a Time in Australia In 2021, the Me Too movement took prominence in Australia following incidents which exposed gendered violence in the nation’s chief political, and legal institutions. The authors, teachers and stud...

In the latest article for the AFLJ’s current Special Issue, authors of the graphic novel ‘Once Upon a Time in Australia’ Sarouche Razi, Anne Macduff, and Kirsten Hoffman reflect and engage in a process they term ‘critical performative iterations’ - read here!

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Calling all legal theorists! The AFLJ is extending the call for papers deadline for its next General Issue. Working on something engaging with critical feminist approaches to law and justice? Submit by 28 June 2024!

⚡️NEW ARTICLE⚡️
Check Margaret Thornton (ANU College of Law) and
Johanna Commins' (Melbourne Law School) discussion 'On Romancing the Tomes: Popular Culture, Law and Feminism: A Public Conversation.'

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⚡️NEW ARTICLE⚡️

Check @sarahailwood.bsky.social's (University of Wollongong) new article ‘Performance, Credibility and #MeToo Testimony in Rush v Nationwide News Pty Ltd.'

#law #feministjurisprudence

Read it online here 👉👉https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13200968.2024.2326674

🔔 Call for Papers! 🔔
Would you like to publish in the AFLJ?

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⚡️NEW ARTICLE⚡️

Check Boravin Tann's, from Royal University of Law and Economics, article ‘A Daughter is Like a Pot of Fish Paste While a Son is Like Pure Gold’: Gendered Conceptions of ‘Human Dignity’ in Cambodia.

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We are delighted to announce that the first article of our forthcoming Special Edition is out! 🎉

Check Tegan Evans' article 'Enemies of All Mankind: Gender, Violence and the Queering of Anne Bonny and Mary Read'.

Read it with open access 👉 tinyurl.com/29usahym

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We are still receiving proposals up to Monday 26 February.

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Our call for Special Issue proposals closes in two weeks.

Do not miss the chance to share send an application. We want to hear from you.

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Do you have a Special Issue proposal that would be a great fit for the AFLJ? We are now accepting SI proposals for 2025! Applications due Monday 26 February. We'd love to hear from you. See details 👉👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Check Arti Gupta's, from the National Law School of India University, article 'Child Sexual Abuse by Fathers in India: Exploring the Layers of 'Honour' in Trials.'
 
Read online 👉 👉 Child Sexual Abuse by Fathers in India: Exploring the Layers of ‘Honour’ in Trials (tandfonline.com)

🎉 30th Anniversary Celebrations 🎉

Today's article is Jacqui True's "The Political Economy of Violence Against Women: A Feminist International Relations Perspective."

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