Pregnancy Denied, Pregnancy Rejected in 'Stephanie Daley' Academic Article

abstract

• This article offers a reading of Hilary Broughers film Stephanie Daley (2006), in which a teen is accused of murdering her newborn (neonaticide). Brougher depicts a phenomenology of unwanted pregnancy and an example of therapeutic jurisprudence. Part One examines Broughers treatment of the shadow side of pregnancy, and highlights barriers to the empathetic treatment of neonaticide. Part Two emphasizes the process of therapeutic jurisprudence as experienced by the two main characters. Broughers film provides a social narrative and phenomenology that may influence laws and legal responses and enlarge social understanding of unwanted pregnancy.

authors

• Ayres, Susan

published proceedings

• Law, Culture and the Humanities

author list (cited authors)

• Ayres, S., & Manjunath, P.

citation count

• 0

complete list of authors

• Ayres, Susan||Manjunath, Prema

publication date

• January 2012

publisher

• SAGE Publications  Publisher

published in

• Law, Culture and the Humanities  Journal

keywords

• Neonaticide
• Stephanie Daley
• Teen Pregnancy
• Therapeutic Jurisprudence
• Unwanted Pregnancy

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1177/1743872112450858

URI

• https://scholarship.law.tamu.edu/facscholar/731

start page

• 132

end page

• 154

volume

• 12

issue

• 1

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1743872112450858