Research Article
BibTex RIS Cite

Siyaset, Hukuk ve Cinsel Suçlar: Assange Olayı ve Hukukçu Feminizmin Eleştirisi

Year 2012, , 0 - 0, 01.01.2012
https://doi.org/10.1501/Fe0001_0000000059

Abstract

2010 yılının sonunda Wikileaks kurucusu Julian Asange’ın cinsel saldırı ve tecavüz ithamıyla tutuklanması hararetli bir tartışmaya yol açtı. Assange olayı, siyaset, hukuk ve cinsellik arasındaki karmaşık ilişkiler üzerine düşünmek için çok verimli bir zemin sunuyor. Bu yazının asıl amacı da, özellikle Amerika ve İsveç’teki tartışmalardan yola çıkarak feminist siyaset ve feminist hukukla ilişkili olarak tecavüz yasalarının eleştirel bir incelemesini yapmak olacak. Bu amaçla bu yazıda konuyu üç temel aşamada ele alacağım. İlk bölümde olayın Amerika ve İsveç’te nasıl farklı bağlamlarda ele alındığına dair karşılaştırmalı bir analiz yapacağım. Bu analizde amacım, devlet, hukuk ve cinsellik ilişkine dair bu iki farklı tartışma bağlamından feminist siyasetin üzerinde düşünmek zorunda olduğu sorunları ortaya çıkarmak olacak. İkinci olarak İsveç’te en net ifadesini gördüğümüz üzere, Batılı ülkelerde tecavüz yasalarında egemen olmaya başlayan yeni gelişmeler ışığında feminizmin hukuk alanında kazandığı mevzilere ilişkin bir sorgulamaya girişeceğim. Nihayet, feminizmin hukuk alanında kazandığı bu yeni konum ile ileri kapitalist ülkelerdeki feminist siyasetin bazı önemli sorunları arasındaki ilişkileri göstermeye çalışacağım

References

  • Anderson, Michelle J. “Negotiating Sex”, Southern Califonia Law Review 78, no. 6 (2005): 1401-1438.
  • Bellafante, G. “Who Put the ‘Me’ in Feminism?”, Time 29 (1998): 54-60.
  • Bryden, David P. “Redefining Rape”, Buffalo Criminal Law Review 3, no. 3 (2000): 317-479.
  • Burgess-Proctor, A. “Intersections of Race, Class, Gender, and Crime: Future Directions for Feminist Criminology”, Feminist Criminology 1, no. 1 (2006): 27-47.
  • Chesney-Lind, M. “Patriarchy, Crime and Justice: Feminist Criminology in an Era of Backlash”, Feminist Criminology 1, no. 1 (2006): 6-26.
  • Denfeld, R. The New Victorians: A Young Woman’s Challenge to the Old Feminist Order (New York: Time Warner, 1995).
  • Faludi, S. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women (New York: Crown, 1991).
  • Friedman J. and Jessica Valenti, Yes Means Yes Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World without Rape (Berkeley: Seal, 2008).
  • Furedi, F. Korku Kültürü: Risk Almamanın Riskleri (İstanbul: Ayrıntı, 2001).
  • Gilley, J. “Writings of the Third Wave: Young Feminists in Conversation”, Reference & User Services Quarterly 44, no. 3 (2005).
  • Laidler, Karen L. and Ruth M. Mann, “Anti-Feminist Backlash and Gender-Relevant Crime Initiatives in the Global Context”, Feminist Criminology 3, no. 2 (2008): 79-81.
  • Leijonhufvud, M. “Legal Science and Criminal Policy”, Scandinavian Studies in Law 40 (2000): 421-429.
  • Levy, A. Female Chauvanist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture (New York: Free Press, 2005).
  • MacKinnon, C. “Sexuality”, Towards a Feminist Theory of the State (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989).
  • MacKinnon, C. Unmodified (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987).
  • Morgan, J. “Priggish, Pitiless, and Punitive or Proud, Passionate, and Purposeful? Dichotomies, Sexual Harassment, and “Victim-Feminism”, Canadian Journal of Women and Law 17, no. 1 (2005): 219-232.
  • Özkazanç, A. “Biyopolitik Çağda Suç ve Cezalandırma: Denetim Toplumunda Neo-liberal Yönetimsellik”, Neo- Liberal Tezahürler: Vatandaşlık, Suç, Eğitim (Ankara: Dipnot, 2011).
  • Roiphe, K. The Morning After: Sex, Fear and Feminism (Back Bay Books, 1994).
  • Rubin, G. “Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality”, Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality (ed.) Carol S. Vance (Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984) 267-319.
  • Sommer, Christiana H. Who Stole Feminism: How Women Betrayed Women (Simon and Schuster, 1994).
  • Stansell C. and S. Thompson (eds) Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1993).
  • Tyler, I. “Who Put the “Me” in feminism? The Sexual Politics of Narcissism”, Feminist Theory 6, no. 1 (2005): 25-44.
  • Westen, P. “Some Common Confusions about Consent in Rape Cases”, Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 2, no. 1 (2004): 332-359.
  • Whelehan, I. “The New Angels in the House? Feminists as New Victorians?”, Literature Interpratation Theory 20, no. 1-2 (2009) 65-78.
  • Wolf, N. Fire with Fire: The New Female Power and How to Use It (Ballentine Books, 1994).

Politics, Law and Sexual Crimes: The Assange Affair and the Critique of Legal Feminism

Year 2012, , 0 - 0, 01.01.2012
https://doi.org/10.1501/Fe0001_0000000059

Abstract

Politics, Law and Sexual Crimes: The Assange Affair and the Critique of Legal Feminism In December 2010, the founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange was arrested on the basis of allegations of rape and sexual assault. The allegations and the arrest have led to a heated public debate aorund the world. The Assange case provides an excellent example to analyze the delicate and complicated relations between law, politics and sexual crimes. This paper interrogates this messy field of complex issues by elaborating on the debates in the US and in Sweden. This paper will proceed through three levels. In the first part, I will make a comparative evaluation of the US and Swedish debates and claim that the terms of the debate were totally different in each county and that feminist politics should derive different lessons from these debates to think about the question of state, politics and law in relation to sexual crimes. Secondly, I will critically analyze legal feminism and its problems as it is revealed by the Swedish rape laws. Finally I will try to think the problems of legal feminism in the context of feminist politics in the Western world

References

  • Anderson, Michelle J. “Negotiating Sex”, Southern Califonia Law Review 78, no. 6 (2005): 1401-1438.
  • Bellafante, G. “Who Put the ‘Me’ in Feminism?”, Time 29 (1998): 54-60.
  • Bryden, David P. “Redefining Rape”, Buffalo Criminal Law Review 3, no. 3 (2000): 317-479.
  • Burgess-Proctor, A. “Intersections of Race, Class, Gender, and Crime: Future Directions for Feminist Criminology”, Feminist Criminology 1, no. 1 (2006): 27-47.
  • Chesney-Lind, M. “Patriarchy, Crime and Justice: Feminist Criminology in an Era of Backlash”, Feminist Criminology 1, no. 1 (2006): 6-26.
  • Denfeld, R. The New Victorians: A Young Woman’s Challenge to the Old Feminist Order (New York: Time Warner, 1995).
  • Faludi, S. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women (New York: Crown, 1991).
  • Friedman J. and Jessica Valenti, Yes Means Yes Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World without Rape (Berkeley: Seal, 2008).
  • Furedi, F. Korku Kültürü: Risk Almamanın Riskleri (İstanbul: Ayrıntı, 2001).
  • Gilley, J. “Writings of the Third Wave: Young Feminists in Conversation”, Reference & User Services Quarterly 44, no. 3 (2005).
  • Laidler, Karen L. and Ruth M. Mann, “Anti-Feminist Backlash and Gender-Relevant Crime Initiatives in the Global Context”, Feminist Criminology 3, no. 2 (2008): 79-81.
  • Leijonhufvud, M. “Legal Science and Criminal Policy”, Scandinavian Studies in Law 40 (2000): 421-429.
  • Levy, A. Female Chauvanist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture (New York: Free Press, 2005).
  • MacKinnon, C. “Sexuality”, Towards a Feminist Theory of the State (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989).
  • MacKinnon, C. Unmodified (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987).
  • Morgan, J. “Priggish, Pitiless, and Punitive or Proud, Passionate, and Purposeful? Dichotomies, Sexual Harassment, and “Victim-Feminism”, Canadian Journal of Women and Law 17, no. 1 (2005): 219-232.
  • Özkazanç, A. “Biyopolitik Çağda Suç ve Cezalandırma: Denetim Toplumunda Neo-liberal Yönetimsellik”, Neo- Liberal Tezahürler: Vatandaşlık, Suç, Eğitim (Ankara: Dipnot, 2011).
  • Roiphe, K. The Morning After: Sex, Fear and Feminism (Back Bay Books, 1994).
  • Rubin, G. “Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality”, Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality (ed.) Carol S. Vance (Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984) 267-319.
  • Sommer, Christiana H. Who Stole Feminism: How Women Betrayed Women (Simon and Schuster, 1994).
  • Stansell C. and S. Thompson (eds) Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1993).
  • Tyler, I. “Who Put the “Me” in feminism? The Sexual Politics of Narcissism”, Feminist Theory 6, no. 1 (2005): 25-44.
  • Westen, P. “Some Common Confusions about Consent in Rape Cases”, Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 2, no. 1 (2004): 332-359.
  • Whelehan, I. “The New Angels in the House? Feminists as New Victorians?”, Literature Interpratation Theory 20, no. 1-2 (2009) 65-78.
  • Wolf, N. Fire with Fire: The New Female Power and How to Use It (Ballentine Books, 1994).
There are 25 citations in total.

Details

Primary Language Turkish
Subjects Women's Studies
Journal Section Research Article
Authors

Alev Özkazanç This is me

Publication Date January 1, 2012
Published in Issue Year 2012

Cite

Chicago Özkazanç, Alev. “Siyaset, Hukuk Ve Cinsel Suçlar: Assange Olayı Ve Hukukçu Feminizmin Eleştirisi”. Fe Dergi 4, no. 1 (January 2012). https://doi.org/10.1501/Fe0001_0000000059.