Pregnancy Denied, Pregnancy Rejected in Stephanie Daley

Autor: Prema Manjunath, Susan Ayres
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: Law, Culture and the Humanities. 12:132-154
ISSN: 1743-9752
1743-8721
DOI: 10.1177/1743872112450858
Popis: This article offers a reading of Hilary Brougher’s film Stephanie Daley (2006), in which a teen is accused of murdering her newborn (neonaticide). Brougher depicts a “phenomenology of unwanted pregnancy” and an example of therapeutic jurisprudence. Part One examines Brougher’s treatment of the “shadow side of pregnancy,” and highlights barriers to the empathetic treatment of neonaticide. Part Two emphasizes the process of therapeutic jurisprudence as experienced by the two main characters. Brougher’s film provides a social narrative and phenomenology that may influence laws and legal responses and enlarge social understanding of unwanted pregnancy.
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