Unexpected subjects : intimate partner violence, testimony, and the law / Alessandra Gribaldo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gribaldo, Alessandra, author.

Series:

Essays in Ethnographic Theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evidence, Criminal--Italy.

Evidence, Criminal.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (179 pages)

Place of Publication:

HAU Books 2021

Chicago : HAU Books, 1905.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is an ethnography of the encounter between women's words and the demands of the law in the context of adjudications on intimate partner violence. A study of institutional devices, it focuses on women's practices of resistance and the elicitation of intelligible subjectivities. Using Italy as an illustrative case, Alessandra Gribaldo explores the problematic encounter between the need to speak, the entanglement of violence and intimacy, and the way the law approaches domestic violence. On this basis, she advances theoretical reflections on questions of evidence, persuasion, and testimony, and their implications for ethnographic theory. Gribaldo analyzes dynamics that create the victim-subject, shedding light on how the Italian legal system reproduces broader conditions of violence against women. This book will be of great interest to all social scientists concerned with gender and the law.

Contents:

Introduction

Chapter 1. (Un)familiar violence

Violence degree zero

Mistreated subjects and intractable violence

Chapter 2. Wavering intentions

Recognize and speak the violence!

Maltrattamenti in famiglia and the abused subject

The experience of intimate partner violence: A crime with a story

Chapter 3. Confessing victimhood

Evidence and testimonial proof

The burden of evidence: experience

When evidence lies in the victim subject

Chapter 4. The gender of true-lying

The burden of persuasion: intention and biased evidence

Agency vs credibility

Oblique narratives: the imperfect victim

Conclusions.

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (Worldcat, viewed March 24, 2023).

ISBN:

9781912808731

1912808730