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- Title
HARMING WOMEN WITH WORDS: THE FAILURE OF AUSTRALIAN LAW TO PROHIBIT GENDERED HATE SPEECH.
- Authors
D'SOUZA, TANYA; GRIFFIN, LAURA; SHACKLETON, NICOLE; WALT, DANIELLE
- Abstract
In Australia, gendered hate speech against women is so pervasive and insidious that it is a normalised feature of everyday public discourse. It is often aimed at silencing women, and hindering their ability to participate effectively in civil society. As governmental bodies have recognised, sexist and misogynist language perpetuates gender-based violence by contributing to strict gender norms and constructing women as legitimate objects of hostility. Thus, gendered hate speech, like other forms of hate speech, produces a range of harms which ripple out beyond the targeted individual. The harmful nature of vilification is recognised by the various Australian laws which prohibit or address other forms of hate speech. But as we map out in this article, gendered hate speech is glaringly absent from most of this legislation. We argue that by failing to address gendered hate speech, Australian law permits the marginalisation of women and girls, and actively exacerbates their vulnerability to exclusion and gender-based harm.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; HATE speech; CRIMES against women; LIBEL &; slander; HATE crimes; HATE groups
- Publication
University of New South Wales Law Journal, 2018, Vol 41, Issue 3, p939
- ISSN
0313-0096
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.53637/ymdb7876