ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the ways that individual rights can operate as a vehicle of both emancipation and injury. Drawing on a longer tradition of critical legal theory and critical race studies, the chapter considers the ways that interdisciplinary scholars of law and literature have written against, athwart, or beyond the limitations of rights in search of alternative measures of equality and justice. Drawing out the prevalence of the catalogue in philosophies of right, the chapter ends with a reconsideration of the aggregative literary forms as an alternative conceptual vocabulary for gender-based harm.
