In this article we analyse the regulation of female genital surgery in Australia with a focus on New South Wales. We argue that the categorisation of some surgeries as Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and others as Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery (FGCS) participates in the production of a constellation of gendered legal subjects, produced in language and law, that contribute to maintaining the raced and gendered status quo in Australia. Our analysis demonstrates that there is not one legal subject (or object) position for women produced through these laws; a range of legal subject positions are produced in and through this specific set of legal provisions, and these subject positions may shift over time. We analyse three legal subjects, produced relationally. First, anti-FGM feminists and female parliamentarians, who, through campaigning for and participating in passing these laws, enter into a partnership across gender with male lawmakers, become authors of law and full legal subjects of western liberal democracies in that process. Necessary to the emergence of these women as full legal subjects and authors of the law are those subjected to these legal provisions. The creation and prohibition of the category of FGM, through the definition of a wide range of varying cultural practices of female genital cutting, or female circumcision, as ‘mutilation’, creates the image of the ‘mutilated (brown) female’ as subjected to the law. Finally, a new subject of FGCS also emerges through these laws: the figure of a relatively privileged (white) woman who is saturated with sexuality and defined through the decision to mutilate her body in the pursuit of sexual pleasure. This figure, which we call the ‘new hysteric’, is the third gendered legal subject that we discuss.

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想象中的法律主体与女性生殖器手术的规定

在本文中，我们分析了澳大利亚女性生殖器手术的法规，重点是新南威尔士州。我们认为有些外科手术被归类为女性生殖器切割（FGM），另一些外科手术则归类为女性生殖器整容手术（FGCS）参与了一系列以语言和法律产生的性别平等法律主题的形成，这有助于维持种族和性别歧视。澳大利亚的性别现状。我们的分析表明，通过这些法律产生的女性没有一个法律主体（或客体）地位；在这套特定的法律规定中或通过这些法律规定产生了一系列法律主题职位，并且这些主题职位可能会随着时间而变化。我们分析了三个相关的法律主题。首先，反对女性外阴残割的女权主义者和女议员，通过竞选和参与通过这些法律，与男性立法者建立跨性别的伙伴关系，在此过程中成为法律的作者和西方自由民主国家的完整法律主体。这些妇女要成为完整的法律主体和法律作者，必须受这些法律规定的约束。通过对女性生殖器切割或女性包皮环切术的广泛不同文化习俗的定义为“残割”，创造并禁止了女性外阴残割的类别，从而创造了“残割（棕色）女性”的形象。法律。最后，通过这些法律也出现了FGCS的一个新主题：一个相对特权（白人）的女人，这个女人已经充满了性欲，并且决定通过残害自己的身体追求性快感来对其进行定义。