Chair - Gotell

Dr. Lise Gotell

Professor and Chair

Office: 1-02E Assiniboia Hall, Phone: 492-0326
Email: lise.gotell@ualberta.ca

Degrees

BPA Hon., Public Administration (Carleton University)
MA, Political Science (York University)
PhD, Political Science (York University)
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Feminist Legal Studies (Osgoode Hall Law School)

Research

My research focuses on gender, sexuality and law.  I have published on diverse areas in Canadian feminist legal studies, including equality litigation, obscenity law and sexual orientation jurisprudence.  My recent work explores developments in sexual assault law in the context of neoliberal governance and contemporary forms of feminist antirape activism. 

Teaching

Fall 2011
W ST 431: Feminism and Sexual Assault

Recent Publications (2005-2010)

"Third Wave Antirape Activism on Neoliberal Terrain:  The Mobilization of the Garneau Sisterhood," Sexual Assault Law, Practice and Activism in a Post Jane Doe Era, Elizabeth Sheehy, ed. (Ottawa, University of Ottawa Press, forthcoming 2011).

"On Denunciations and Disavowals: Feminism, Trans Inclusion and Nixon v. Vancouver Rape Relief," in Feminism in the Liberal Arts: Not Drowning but Waving, in Susan Brown, Jeanne Perreault, Jo-Ann Wallace & Heather Zwicker, eds., (Edmonton University of Alberta Press, forthcoming 2011).

"Canadian Sexual Assault Law: Neoliberalism and the Erosion of Feminist inspired Law Reform,"Rethinking Rape Law,  in Clare McGlynn and Vanessa Munro, eds, (London: Routledge, UK, 2010), 209-223.

(co-edited with Barbara Crow) Open Boundaries: A Canadian Women’s Studies Reader 3e (Scarborough: Pearson 2009), 384 pages.

(with Melanie Beres and Barbara Crow), "The Perils of Institutionalization in Neoliberal Times: Results of a National Survey of Canadian Sexual Assault and Rape Crisis Centres," (2009) 34:1 Canadian Journal of Sociology, 135-163.

 “Rethinking Affirmative Consent in Canadian Sexual Assault Law: Neoliberal Sexual Subjects and Risky Women,” (2008) 41.4 Akron Law Review symposium issue: “Rape, Affirmative Consent, and Sexual Autonomy,” 865-888.

“Tracking Decisions on Access to Sexual Assault Complainants’ Confidential Records: The Continued Permeability of Subsections 278.1–278.9 of the Criminal Code,” (2008) 20.1 Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, 111-154.

“The Discursive Disappearance of Sexualized Violence: Feminist Law Reform, Judicial Resistance and Neoliberal Sexual Citizenship,” in Dorothy E. Chunn, Susan B. Boyd, and Hester Lessard, eds., Feminism, Law and Social Change: (Re)action and Resistance, (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007), 127-163.

“When Privacy is Not Enough: Sexual Assault Complainants, Sexual History Evidence and Confidential Records,” (2006) 43 Alberta Law Review, 743-778.

(with Barbara Crow), “Antifeminism and the Women’s Studies Classroom,” in Elizabeth Kennedy, ed., Women’s Studies for the Future: Foundations, Interrogations, Politics (: Rutgers University Press, 2005), 287-303.