Up Against a Wall : Rape Reform and the Failure of Success / Rose Corrigan.
2013
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Title
Up Against a Wall : Rape Reform and the Failure of Success / Rose Corrigan.
Author
Corrigan, Rose, author.
ISBN
9780814725214
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2013]
Copyright
©2013
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource
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10.18574/nyu/9780814707937.001.0001 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification
345.7302532
Summary
Rape law reform has long been hailed as one of the most successful projects of second-wave feminism. Yet forty years after the anti-rape movement emerged, legal and medical institutions continue to resist implementing reforms intended to provide more just and compassionate legal and medical responses to victims of sexual violence. In Up Against a Wall, Rose Corrigan draws on interviews with over 150 local rape care advocates in communities across the United States to explore how and why mainstream systems continue to resist feminist reforms.In a series of richly detailed case studies, the book weaves together scholarship on law and social movements, feminist theory, policy formation and implementation, and criminal justice to show how the innovative legal strategies employed by anti-rape advocates actually undermined some of their central claims. But even as its more radical elements were thwarted, pieces of the rape law reform project were seized upon by conservative policy-makers and used to justify new initiatives that often prioritize the interests and rights of criminal justice actors or medical providers over the needs of victims.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CHAPTER ONE. INTRODUCTION: The Failure of Success
CHAPTER TWO. THE ANTI-RAPE MOVEMENT AND THE TURN TO LAW
CHAPTER THREE. LISTENING TO RAPE CARE ADVOCATES
CHAPTER FOUR. INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSES TO RAPE
CHAPTER FIVE. DEVELOPING THE BODY OF EVIDENCE
CHAPTER SIX. WHEN RIGHTS ARE WRONG
CHAPTER SEVEN. WHEN IS A RAPIST A SEX OFFENDER?
CHAPTER EIGHT. FLEEING FROM FEMINISM
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CHAPTER ONE. INTRODUCTION: The Failure of Success
CHAPTER TWO. THE ANTI-RAPE MOVEMENT AND THE TURN TO LAW
CHAPTER THREE. LISTENING TO RAPE CARE ADVOCATES
CHAPTER FOUR. INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSES TO RAPE
CHAPTER FIVE. DEVELOPING THE BODY OF EVIDENCE
CHAPTER SIX. WHEN RIGHTS ARE WRONG
CHAPTER SEVEN. WHEN IS A RAPIST A SEX OFFENDER?
CHAPTER EIGHT. FLEEING FROM FEMINISM
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHOR