Visualising Justice: Teaching Sexual Violence and Law Through Engagement with Artwork

Authors

  • Nikki Godden-Rasul Newcastle University
  • Tina Sikka Newcastle University
  • Jayne Jackson

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22024/UniKent/03/fal.1340

Abstract

Nikki Godden-Rasul (as a legal scholar), Tina Sikka (as an arts and cultures scholar) and Jayne Jackson (an independent empowerment photographer, activist and PhD researcher) reflect on the use of Jackson’s photographic artwork Asking For It, which challenges sexual violence victim blaming, in a Law and Gender LLB module. In particular, they explore the role art plays in students’ learning, and its potential to challenge the supposed objectivity, neutrality and disembodied rationality of law, by bringing visual culture and emotions into the frame.

Author Biographies

Nikki Godden-Rasul, Newcastle University

Senior Lecturer in Law, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK

Tina Sikka, Newcastle University

Reader in Technoscience and Intersectional Justice, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK.

Jayne Jackson

Independent empowerment photographer, activist and PhD candidate, Arts University Bournemouth, Bournemouth, UK.

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Published

12-04-2025

How to Cite

Godden-Rasul, N., Sikka, T., & Jackson, J. (2025). Visualising Justice: Teaching Sexual Violence and Law Through Engagement with Artwork. Feminists@law, 13(2). https://doi.org/10.22024/UniKent/03/fal.1340

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Vol. 13 No. 2 (2025)

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