Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2010
Source Publication
Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review. Volume 44, Issue 1 (2010), p. 121-156.
Abstract
This Article offers a critique of tort remedies grounded in feminist theory of the body. It demonstrates how tort law is invested in a notion of an individuated legal subject, which fails to capture the critical interconnectedness of bodies in a social, political, historical, and colonial context. Taking the "injury" of endocrine disruption in a Canadian Aboriginal community as an example of a contemporary pollution harm, the analysis considers various torts on a conceptual level, and what they might offer the Aamjiwnaang First Nation in the way of remedies. In each case, what the tort can do depends on how the injury, and the scale at which the entity taken to have suffered the injury, is conceived.
Repository Citation
Scott, Dayna Nadine. "Body Polluted: Questions of Scale, Gender, and Remedy." Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 44.1 (2010): 121-156.
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Comments
This article was previously published as a research paper in the Comparative Research in Law and Political Economy series.