On rape and property: How legal relations create spaces of violence

该项目旨在了解强奸与财产之间的关系。它首先从经验观察出发，即性暴力在某些场所特别普遍：家庭、监狱、婚姻和性工作合同以及拘留中心。虽然诉诸婚姻和家庭的神圣性或监狱的必要性往往将这些制度视为自然，但它们实际上是法律的和社会实践的产物。这个项目的核心假设是，这些明显不同的空间的基础是共同财产关系，这些关系通过空间化的排斥和封闭的法律的关系，在性暴力行为中深深地重叠在一起。为了验证这一假设，我分析了美国的判例法从19世纪70年代到今天的性暴力，因为它是索引空间和财产：乱伦和儿童性虐待在家里，强奸在监狱和拘留中心，婚姻和性工作者强奸合同空间内。

This project seeks to understand the relationship between rape and property. It begins from the empirical observation that sexual violence is particularly prevalent within certain spaces: homes, prisons, contracts for marriage and sex work, and detention centres. While appeals to the sanctity of marriage and family or to the necessity of prisons tend to construct these institutions as natural, they are in fact products of legal and social practices. The central hypothesis of this project is that underlying these apparently very different spaces are common property relations deeply imbricated within practices of sexual violence, through spatialized legal relations of exclusion and enclosure. To test this hypothesis, I analyse US caselaw on sexual violence from the 1870's to the present day as it is indexed to space and property: incest and child sexual abuse within the home; rape in prisons and detention centers; and marital and sex worker rape within contractual space.