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    The Image of Law in Stephen R. Donaldson’s “Reave the Just”: Agency, Blame, and Sexual Assault

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    Author
    Wise, Dennis Wilson
    Affiliation
    Univ Arizona
    Issue Date
    2020-03-10
    Keywords
    Stephen R
    Donaldson
    fantasy
    gender violence
    rape law
    feminism
    liberalism
    agency
    victim blaming
    
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    Publisher
    ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
    Citation
    Dennis Wilson Wise (2020) The Image of Law in Stephen R. Donaldson’s “Reave the Just”: Agency, Blame, and Sexual Assault, Law & Literature, DOI: 10.1080/1535685X.2020.1734314
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    LAW & LITERATURE
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    © 2020 by The Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University. All rights reserved.
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    This item from the UA Faculty Publications collection is made available by the University of Arizona with support from the University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions, please contact us at repository@u.library.arizona.edu.
    Abstract
    Stephen R. Donaldson is a major modern writer of speculative fiction for whom the issue of sexed violence, including rape, plays an important role. This article examines "Reave the Just," the keynote story in his award-winning collection Reave the Just and Other Tales, as a gateway into how Donaldson examines sexed violence in his long-form fiction. While the story reflects a strong feminist commitment to gender equality and individual agency, I argue that Donaldson's liberal individualist conception of the law, which retains wide contemporary cultural and juridical support, has also become problematized through recent radical and postmodern feminist discussions on victim blaming. After assessing the strengths and weaknesses of the liberal position articulated by "Reave," I suggest that Donaldson's story helps revive a link between agency and victimization-first advanced by second wave feminists-that, by the time of the story's composition in the 1990s, had generally lost feminist support.
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    18 month embargo; published online: 10 March 2020
    ISSN
    1535-685X
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    1541-2601
    DOI
    10.1080/1535685x.2020.1734314
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