Tapestry of Tales: Women’s Collative Writings as Legal Storytelling

Poole, K

Tapestry of Tales: Women’s Collative Writings as Legal Storytelling

Poole, K

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Publisher:: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Law and Literature, 2026, 38, (1), pp. 121-140
Issue Date:: 2026-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Poole, K https://orcid.org/0009-0006-2327-6095
dc.date.accessioned	2026-10-09T02:38:20Z
dc.date.available	2026-10-09T02:38:20Z
dc.date.issued	2026-01-01
dc.identifier.citation	Law and Literature, 2026, 38, (1), pp. 121-140
dc.identifier.issn	1535-685X
dc.identifier.issn	1541-2601
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/196825
dc.description.abstract	This article presents an exploration of the storytelling as a feminist practice generating a counternarrative to law, with particular focus on narrative forms that center the collation of women’s stories, examining the practice from the 1400s to contemporary microbiographies on TikTok. I focus on the literary mode of biographical collection. In doing so, I assert that it is the weaving and compounding of multitudes of stories that give rise to the challenging of law’s normative, masculinized narratives. Seemingly inconsequential, isolated biographical narratives are given larger social meaning when read together.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
dc.relation.ispartof	Law and Literature
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1080/1535685X.2024.2398316
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject	1801 Law
dc.subject.classification	4804 Law in context
dc.title	Tapestry of Tales: Women’s Collative Writings as Legal Storytelling
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	38
utslib.for	1801 Law
pubs.organisational-group	University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Law
utslib.copyright.status	open_access	*
dc.rights.license	This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.date.updated	2026-10-09T02:38:19Z
pubs.issue	1
pubs.publication-status	Published
pubs.volume	38
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This article presents an exploration of the storytelling as a feminist practice generating a counternarrative to law, with particular focus on narrative forms that center the collation of women’s stories, examining the practice from the 1400s to contemporary microbiographies on TikTok. I focus on the literary mode of biographical collection. In doing so, I assert that it is the weaving and compounding of multitudes of stories that give rise to the challenging of law’s normative, masculinized narratives. Seemingly inconsequential, isolated biographical narratives are given larger social meaning when read together.

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