Abstract:

In spite of advancing innovative conceptions of culture and autonomy, both the liberal and the feminist have addressed the problematic of violence against women that is manifesting in stark terms a constitutive feature of a tension in the relationship between culture and autonomy in form only such that in substance this problematic appears to remain largely intact. By way of disaggregating this problematic, this article develops and defends an alternative approach truly capable of addressing and preventing violence against women in actual terms. Called the disaggregation approach – for lack of better terms – it puts forward a set of small-scale, legal strategies and emphasizes their importance in a field often overrun by massive, aggregative approaches.