This presentation draws from a current book project that explores the difficulties of using choice-based discourse to study, from a juridical perspective, the experiences of women who adopt morally controversial lifestyles and practices. Angela Campbell will draw on empirical evidence illuminating the experiences of women in polygamous marriages. She will consider how law's failure to consider this experiential knowledge of women in polygamy results in regulatory frameworks premised on criminalization that, although touted as anchored to aspirations of gender equality, ultimately increase women's vulnerabilities while constricting opportunities for their exercise of meaningful agency.

Professor Campbell is a professor at McGill University's Faculty of Law where she teaches and researches in the areas of family law, criminal law, wills and estates and feminist legal theory.

This seminar is co-hosted by ANU Gender Institute and Centre for Moral, Social and Political Theory.