ABSTRACT
In recent years, women’s testimonies have provided critical evidence for challenging normative views of law. Yet these testimonies have not been readily available or accessible. Rather, they have been buried in official documents and archives or, too often, have not been archived at all. The few that have been made available have tended to be ‘fragmented’ rather than ‘narrative’ testimonies.7 Such accounts are almost exclusively the kinds of testimonies permitted in the courtroom, even though they do not let a woman fully explain what has happened to her. This is because, as Katherine Biber argues, strict rules govern the admission and collection of evidence at trial and are adduced by the prosecution in order to narrate and prove the facts supporting the charges.8
